Tag Archives : sexual violence

In coup-riddled Guinea, women have also been the target of violence. Anonymously circulating cellphone images reveal sexual molestation and physical beatings of women done in public. ‘They show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses [...]

According to a very new law enacted in Afghanistan, it is legal to starve a wife who refuses sex. This is already a watered down version of the original bill that stipulates for a wife to have sex with her husband four days in a week. This law was signed just as Hamid Karzai was gunning for reelection. In Afghanistan, marital rape is legal. In Congo, [...]

During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is violence against [...]

The revelations contained in the 2,600-page report by Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse are shocking, to say the least. The report details the terror and abuse inflicted by Catholic clergy and nuns on thousands of boys and girls in Catholic educational institutions, making the conclusion that ‘rape, sexual violence, and physical [...]

Across the globe, 150 million girls under 18 years are victims of sexual violence. Many of these young people suffer from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), difficulty sleeping, depression, and alcohol consumption habit. Being children of the communities where they belong, their parents, guardians, relatives, and neighbors bear the primary responsibility [...]