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justicefornoura

Women's lives matter! Justice For Noura!

type:	Petition, Protest
by:	fairplanet
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!

noura

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.

stop rapes india

February 01st, 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 [...]

pakistan child

January 14th, 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?

Women Workers Protest Over Crime Against Women In Kashmir

July 28th, 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 10th, 2017

The karate grandmas of Kenya

in:	Humans
by:	Bob Koigi

She has been taking care of her three grandchildren who were left by her parents after they died of AIDS.She would learn about a new school that was training women of her age on self-defense. “I [...]

RAPE

August 14th, 2015

Rape enshrined in the name of Allah

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 [...]

Protesters mark the anniversary of the Delhi gang rape of Jyoti Singh in 2012

March 03rd, 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 [...]

Turkey : 20-year-old Turkish woman murdered, body burnt

February 17th, 2015

The length of your skirt

by:	Murat Suner

Özgecan Aslan, a 20 year old psychology Turkish student from Mersin was kidnapped on Wednesday on her way home. The driver of the minibus [...]

mukwege

November 27th, 2014

The looming meaninglessness of the Sakharov Prize

by:	Murat Suner

The European Parliament has awarded its highest human rights accolade, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to Dr. Denis Mukwege. Mukwege has [...]

india juvenile criminalization

October 09th, 2014

Is India stepping back from reformative justice?

in:	Humans
by:	Neelo Aysha Scholz

A 23-year-old pharmacy student was brutally gang raped by six men on a moving New Delhi bus in Dec 2012. Later, she died from her injuries whilst in [...]

violence against women

March 25th, 2014

Violence Against Women

in:	Humans
by:	Jonathan Lutes

This means that over a third of the world’s female population (aged 15-44) are victims of sexual and/or physical abuse at least once in their [...]

Images Of Rural Economy As Hunger In India Remains Present

March 18th, 2014

Press Review: Nutrition advocates push for big changes in 2014 & Iraq to vote on bill detrimental to women's rights

in:	Humans, Economy
by:	Rebecca Silus

Scaling Up Nutrition (Sun) is spearheading the movement by enlisting 45 countries to participate in its movement, which combines a multi-sectoral [...]

sudan women

February 25th, 2014

Press Review: Woman convicted of "indecent acts" after rape in Sudan & Women in poorest nations not benefitting from strides in health care and education

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
by:	Rebecca Silus

Her arrest followed the release of a video showing the rape, which prosecutors used to prove she participated in “indecent acts.” In addition to [...]

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April 21st, 2013

Women & Rape in Somalia: One Filmmaker's Stance Against Sexual Violence

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
by:	Sara Jabril

The presidential election of September 2012 heralded the troubled nation’s first, if awkward, steps towards a free democratic vote in several [...]

maldives rape

March 25th, 2013

Horror in paradise

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
org:	Avaaz

It’s hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let’s put an end to this lunacy by hitting the Maldives [...]

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January 23rd, 2013

ONE WOMAN RAPED EVERY 22 MINUTES: Can a Culture of Sexual Violence Ever Change in India?

in:	Humans
type:	Allgemein
by:	Jack Bicker

India has a systemic problem with sexual violence: one woman is raped every 22 minutes, as is one child raped every hour. The recent high-profile [...]

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