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The Long Wait for Justice for Women in India
ExpandWhen she was 13, Razia (not her real name), who has an intellectual disability and difficulties in speaking, was raped by her brother’s tutor in 2014. (Uttarakhand).© 2017 Abhishek Kumar Mehan...
View ArticleVideo: Violence and Rape by Zimbabwe Gov't Forces After Protests
(Johannesburg, March 12, 2019) – Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s...
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Heinous Act Overshadowed Women’s Day in Puntland
ExpandA Somali woman walks alone in central Mogadishu.© 2013 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch Ten days before the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, the brutal rape and murder of a...
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Women, Not Weapons: India's Survivors All Deserve Justice
February 23 sticks in my mind the way a birthday does for most people. After my first 10 years of Bharatanatyam training, I performed my arangetram — a classical dancer’s debut full-length solo recital...
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Ecuador: Decriminalize Abortion in Rape Cases
ExpandA green handkerchief with the hashtags #DéjameDecidir (let me decide) and #AbortoPorViolación (abortion in cases of rape) has become emblematic of the campaign for the decriminalization of...
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Brunei: New Penal Code Imposes Maiming, Stoning
ExpandThe Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah listens during the first executive session of the CHOGM summit at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, April 19, 2018. © 2019 AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth...
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Nigeria: 5 Years After Chibok, Children Still at Risk
ExpandOne of the kidnapped Chibok girls celebrates with a family member following her release in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016.© AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga(Abuja) – The five-year anniversary of...
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Bangladesh: Ensure Justice for Murdered Student
ExpandOrganizations hold a protest rally against the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 12, 2019.© 2019 NurPhoto via Getty Images(New York) – The Bangladesh government should...
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She Accused Assange of Rape. Give Her a Chance for Justice
ExpandAustralian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017. On April 11, 2019, Assange was arrested at the embassy on a 2012 warrant issued by...
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US Stance at UN a Backward Step on Women’s Rights
ExpandMembers of the Security Council vote on a resolution concerning sexual violence during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, April 23, 2019.© 2019 AP Photo/Seth...
View ArticleEcuador: Memorandum on Abortion and International Human Rights Law
Washington, D.C., April 25, 2019Elizabeth Cabezas Guerrero President of the National Assembly Quito – ECUADORSubject: Memorandum on Abortion and International Human Rights LawIntroductionHuman Rights...
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China: Protect 7 North Koreans Fleeing Oppression
ExpandPedestrians walk by a statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong outside the railway station in the Chinese city of Dandong bordering North Korea in northeastern China's Liaoning province on...
View ArticleStatement by Human Rights Watch and Legal Action Worldwide
Statement by Human Rights Watch and Legal Action Worldwide at the International Conference on Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Crises in Oslo, Norway on May 23, 2019: Thank you...
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No Girl Should be Forced into Motherhood After Rape
Norma* (*indicates a pseudonym) was 12 when her father began raping her. She became pregnant shortly thereafter. Though abortion is legal in Ecuador when a woman or girl’s life or health is in danger,...
View ArticleRegina Fonseca of Centro de Derechos de Mujeres
Regina Fonseca, founder and advocacy coordinator of the group Centro de Derechos de Mujeres (Center for Women’s Rights, CDM)
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Life or Death Choices for Women Living Under Honduras’ Abortion Ban
*/ Abortion in all instances, including rape, is illegal in Honduras. Any woman who has an abortion, and anyone found to have helped her, can be charged with a crime and imprisoned.For that reason, La...
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In the Central African Republic, War’s Most Forgotten Victims
ExpandJosephine, 28, said she fled her home in Bangui with her husband and five young children due to fighting in the city in October 2014. When she returned to her neighborhood to collect clothes and...
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Gambia: Women Accuse Ex-President of Sexual Violence
June 26, 2019VideoVideo: Women Accuse Gambian ex-President of Rape Three women have accused Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault while he was in office, Human Rights...
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Gambia’s Women Break Their Silence
When did you first hear that Jammeh had raped and sexually assaulted women?The first stories surfaced when Human Rights Watch Senior Counsel Reed Brody and I started collecting evidence for the...
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