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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Kim Thuy Seelinger Khadidja Hassan Zidane told a stunned Senegalese courtroom that Chad’s former president, Hissène Habré had raped her on four separate occasions. But judges ruled Zidane’s testimony came too late, and Habré was acquitted of this charge. While Habré’s convictions for torture, war...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 87–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... for rape survivors. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 mental health sexual violence “Noor,” 16, said an Islamic State fighter raped her multiple times. She is one of the few Yazidi girls getting regular psychosocial treatment. “Noor,” 16, said an Islamic State fighter raped her...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ian Bateson Lucia was 15 when she became pregnant. The news was a shock to her family: Lucia didn’t have a boyfriend and spent her time doing homework and singing in the church choir. But amid tears, the girl revealed to her mother that the local priest had been raping her for the past two years...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2000
...George Feifer Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 George Feifer is the author o/Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb, a revised editon of which will be published by Lyons Press next spring. The Rape of Okinawa George Feifer A smog of smoke...
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Published: 01 June 2017
“Noor,” 16, said an Islamic State fighter raped her multiple times. She is one of the few Yazidi girls getting regular psychosocial treatment. “Noor,” 16, said an Islamic State fighter raped her multiple times. She is one of the few Yazidi girls getting regular psychosocial treatment. ROTHNA More
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Clancy Nolan When you ask what will prevent rape in Haiti's camps, people usually say two things: lights and security. A flood light, one aid worker says, is as good as 40 policemen. But even where lights exist, electricity in Haiti is unreliable, and camps must run generators to keep...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of women’s bodies more visible than in El Salvador. The smallest and most densely populated country in Central America used to have a three-exception rule common in other Latin American countries. Women could seek out an abortion in cases of rape, if the fetus had severe defects, or when the pregnancy posed...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 44–45.
Published: 01 December 2017
... they were raped, gang raped, or molested by security...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2005
... on the violations of the ceasefire agreement, in­ cluding attacks on villages, troop movements, and military operations. While conducting these investigations, we observed torched villages, hundreds of thousands of displaced civil­ ians, and the effects of such violent atrocities as the rape of women...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 85–91.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... this is a country where a majority would seek to justify rape and blame it on the attire and outgoing nature of awoman. It seems that being a woman and having an Internet connection are the only two requirements needed to attract abusive online commentary. Here are some of the popular threats being...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 70–76.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., in which men of her village were ordered to gang rape her. The act was punishment not for any transgression of her own but as retribution for her brother’s alleged rape of a woman from an opposing clan. Following the gang rape, Mukhtar, her clothes torn and her body brutalized, was walked through the lanes...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 39–46.
Published: 01 December 2016
... organized by flower vendors who had been prohibited from selling in the city of Atenco. Police detained, tortured, and brutally raped 11 women. The case was recently taken on by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has called for an investigation into the participation of Peña Nieto...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in miniskirts and knee-high boots, their bare skin exposed to the chilly winter drizzle. This “Marcha de las Putas” is part of the global SlutWalk movement protesting the idea that women dressed in revealing clothing are asking to get raped. Among the leather and lace that stop traffic along the streets...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Japan domestic violence women rape Shinzô Abe gender STAFF SGT. WARREN PEACE I first met Keiko Kondo in Tokyo in spring 2012. Like all of us, she was struggling to comprehend, a year on, what Japan’s triple disaster—earthquake, tsunami...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 100–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and a hunt for the killers began. The Razor Gang—a group of thieves who broke into homes and raped, tortured, and killed their victims—was soon arrested. With the alleged criminals behind bars, his case seemed a slam-dunk prosecution. Though Ketani—a poor black woman—and Thomson—a well-off white man...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 93–103.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Catholic nun was raped in a convent school in the city of Ranaghat in West Bengal, home to many Christian institutions. The attack occurred when a group of seven to eight armed men stormed the school compound in the middle of the night, desecrated the chapel, stole $9,000 in cash, tied up several sisters...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2018
... this hang forever? When I take Viagra, it stands up.” He uses words to denigrate women in the guise of entertainment. A month before he was elected president, a YouTube video of Duterte joking about an Australian missionary who was raped and killed in his city went viral. He said on the campaign trail...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 89.
Published: 01 December 2001
...) motion of Democracy” (XVII: 1) Rieff, David, and Robert D. Kaplan; "The Coming Anarchy" (XVII:2) Feifer, George; "The Rape of Okinawa” (XVII:3) Rieff, David; “The Crusaders: Moral Principles, Strategic...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 79–87.
Published: 01 March 2001
... water. There were priests and lawyers hardly squared with my experience of a diligently documenting the latest sum­ continent churning with passion and rage. mary killings, beatings and gang rapes. Most Africans I encountered, far from pas­ And there were the witnesses and survi­ sively succumbing...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 99–105.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Romanian agricultural land, or some 50,000 acres. Romania is a large country, with vast stretches of fertile agricultural land. Indeed, Romania has four times as much productive farmland as Italy. Still, foreign companies here only grow corn, wheat, rape plants, and sunflowers—less expensive crops. Since...