Tag Archives: Gender-based violence
‘FGM happened to me in white, midwest America’ | US news | The Guardian
FGM is not my shame, it is my story. In 1947, when I was just three years old a doctor removed my clitoris. Female genital mutilation is mostly associated with African cultures, and non-Christian religions, but my FGM happened in … Continue reading
Gender and Genocide
“From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send out a strong message that rape is no longer a trophy of war.” – Judge Navi Pillay … Continue reading
Watch Yazidi activist and sex slavery survivor Nadia Murad’s powerful message to ISIS
Nadia Murad Basee Taha possesses the distinct blend of energy and exhaustion that emanates from relentless crusaders. It is a jarring juxtaposition, to see the 23-year-old woman from Sinjar sitting in a sun-dappled New York City skyscraper, coolly conversing in Kurmanji … Continue reading
Survivors of Wartime Rape Are Refusing to Be Silenced
These women won’t rest until the shame of rape is aimed where it should be: at perpetrators instead of victims. Rape in war largely begins, and ends, with men. In Congo, as around the world, Ruratotoye blames a masculine culture … Continue reading
UN Launches New Committment to End Sexual Violence In War Zones
Half a million women were raped during the Rwandan genocide. As many as 64,000 suffered sexual violence during Sierra Leone’s brutal blood diamond fueled civil war. And 40,000 were raped in Bosnia. The sheer magnitude of women raped and the … Continue reading
Crowd-sourced Map of Sexual Violence in Syria
Women Under Siege is in the process of crowd-sourcing a map of sexual violence in the Syrian civil war. And it’s amazing. Check it out.
Creating heaven ‘in a place called hell’: DRC activist responds to US tabloid
By Lauren Wolfe/Director of Women Under Seige— July 25, 2013 Sometimes I read something that makes the movement of the world, the very air in the room, freeze to a stop. That’s what happened recently when I read a letter written … Continue reading
Violence Against Women in the Media
Culture is a recursive phenomenon – we are products of our environment as much as we mold our surroundings. But how does our culture really affect us? Could casual exposure to violence against women, or the regular portrayal of rape…
Gender Justice and the ICC
While the ICC is working on prosecuting gender-based violence cases, the problem still persists in both peaceful and conflicted areas. As mentioned in our previous post, gender-based violence stems from cultural norms, not just from conflict. Check out this op-ed that … Continue reading
Half of Humanity 