Tag Archives : VAW

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 [...]

In the light of immigrant mothers taking their Europe-born daughters on vacation to Africa to be circumcised, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are on a campaign to stop perpetrators of genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. These perpetrators are usually the mothers. The countries are ‘fighting the traffic [...]