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August 28, 2022
Spain adopts ‘Only Yes Means Yes’ sexual consent law
topic: Women’s rights
by: Abby Klinkenberg
How will Spain's updated legislation change the way judicial systems try for sexual assault?
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December 18, 2021
Indian politicians fail to take rape seriously
topic: Women’s rights
by: Tish Sanghera
While India's sexual assault cases have been on the rise, politicians' ridiculisation of rape denotes much needed social change.
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croatia_abuse
December 28, 2020
Could one email of a sexually abused child change a curriculum?
topic: Child rights
by: Katarina Panić
Victims of sexual abuse take an average of 13 years to speak out. Croatian filmmaker Đuro Gavran breaks the taboo of child abuse in his movie One of us.
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wp,en africa
December 07, 2020
The pivotal role of African women in silencing the guns
topic: Women’s rights
by: Bob Koigi
In Africa, which has experienced its fair share of armed conflicts, women constitute an estimated 80% of those who flee their homes when wars break out.
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September 20, 2020
Disguised misogynist culture behind growing rape cases in Pakistan
topic: Women’s rights
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Every now and then the mounting cases of sexual assaults in Pakistan, with increasingly disturbing details, only grab brief attention.
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croatia_abortion
July 06, 2020
Croatia's MPs oppose the right to abortion even for rape victims
topic: Abortion
by: Katarina Panić
The right to abortion became one of the top issues during the campaign that precedes the parliamentary election in Croatia, scheduled for July 5.
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esmas secret
November 30, 2019
Children born out of wartime rape must not remain silent
topic: Women’s rights
by: Katarina Panić
Under the banner - Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands against Rape.
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domestiv violence
November 02, 2019
Croatia finally calls rape by its real name
topic: Human Rights
by: Katarina Panić
How the Croatian government was forced to toughen the penalties for sexual and domestic violence.
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justicefornoura
May 21, 2018
Women's lives matter! Justice For Noura!
type: Petition, Protest
by: FairPlanet Editorial Team
org: change.org
We call you to support the campaign to get #JusticeForNoura! Don't execute Noura Houssein for self defense against the man who raped her!
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noura
May 21, 2018
Noura Hussein: the poster child for child marriage and marital rape
by: Bob Koigi
Noura Hussein from Sudan has been forced into marriage at the age of 16 and was raped by her husband. Now she is sentenced to death for self-defence.
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stop rapes india
February 01, 2018
How to tackle sexual harassment in India?
by: Shira Jeczmien
“Have we become so insensitive or we have simply accepted this as our fate?” Tweeted Swati Maliwal, the chairwoman of the Delhi Commission for Women, after an 8-months-old girl [...]
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pakistan child
January 14, 2018
Millions of Pakistanis left for prey
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Is the rape and murder of minors in the Punjab province a sign of the society’s overall criminal negligence towards children's rights in Pakistan?
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Women Workers Protest Over Crime Against Women In Kashmir
July 28, 2017
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
by: Shadi Khan Saif
In a second gruesome incident of the sort, a local elders’ council in Pakistan’s Punjab province ordered rape of a girl in revenge of a rape allegedly committed by her brother. The [...]
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February 10, 2017
The karate grandmas of Kenya
topic: Women’s rights
by: Bob Koigi
When criminal gangs broke into 50-year-old Hannah Nyakio’s modest house in Nairobi Kenya, stole from her and raped her, she knew she had to act swiftly.
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RAPE
August 14, 2015
Rape enshrined in the name of Allah
topic: Humans
by: Ama Lorenz
“In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a [...]
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Protesters mark the anniversary of the Delhi gang rape of Jyoti Singh in 2012
March 03, 2015
A girl can do anything, if she won't get raped
by: Murat Suner
Jyoti Singh had just completed her medical exams to become a doctor. Speaking excellent English, she spent nights working in a call centre from 8pm [...]
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