Dec 16, 2024 · Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state …

Nov 6, 2024 · In Ecuador one in four women experience sexual violence. Until April 2021, abortion after rape was criminalized unless the pregnant person had an intellectual disability.

Jan 31, 1999 · Daniel Lockwood, an expert on prison rape, has posited that sexual aggression in prison can be traced to men's sexist attitudes toward women, which, in prison, translate into a …

Jul 16, 2016 · International law has prohibited rape and other forms of sexual violence against women during armed conflict for over a century. 251 International humanitarian law, also …

Nov 25, 2024 · Criminal groups in Haiti have intensified attacks against the population in recent weeks, including by subjecting girls and women to horrific sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch …

Nov 16, 2017 · This report documents the Burmese military’s gang rape of Rohingya women and girls and further acts of violence, cruelty, and humiliation. Many women described witnessing …

Rape most often occurs during crackdowns, cordon-and-search operations during which men are held for identification in parks or schoolyards while security forces search their homes.

The rape of one person is translated into an assault upon the community through the emphasis placed in every culture on women's sexual virtue: the shame of the rape humiliates the family …

Apr 22, 2024 · Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023.

Apr 15, 2015 · (New York) – The extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) has carried out systematic rape and other sexual violence against Yezidi women and girls in northern Iraq.