On New Year's Day, a group of government soldiers descended on a village in eastern Congo, raping more than 60 women and girls. Six weeks later, in a startling victory against impunity, 11 soldiers are standing trial.
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In Congo, where rape is epidemic and recourse for victims almost nonexistent, impunity has been the norm. An innovative program is showing there might be another way.
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After years of working in the United States, an organization that pays female drug users to be sterilized has turned its attention to Kenya, where it plans to start paying women living with HIV to submit to long-term contraception.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Barbara Harris, Brett Davidson, contraception, drug treatment, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, PMTCT, Project Prevention, reproductive health, women
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Pregnant women who use drugs are demonized by lawmakers, the media and society despite little scientific proof of harm to their offspring. What they really need is access to evidence-based, compassionate and non-judgmental care.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, pregnancy, public health, Rebecca Tolson, Russia, Ukraine, women
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The right to live in one's own home community is denied to millions of persons with disabilities who have been segregated in institutions. Senada Halilcevic, a human rights advocate in Croatia, shares her experience of living in an institution and making her way out of it.
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Human rights advocate Ola Abualghaib recounts her struggle against public attitudes that perceived her as a "burden" because of her disability.
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Women living with HIV in many parts of the world are being sterilized unnecessarily and without their consent. Now, women in Namibia are fighting back against this abusive practice.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Justice
Topics: forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, Lydia Guterman, Namibia, video, women, women's rights
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If the notion that girls should not be educated or that English education was bad had popular support, the extremists would not have to blow up schools: they would be empty anyway.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth, Middle East, Rights & Equality
Topics: Afghanistan, counterterrorism, Faisal Bari, girls, Pakistan, Taliban, women
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Women In Fatherhood, an Open Society Foundations grantee, is bringing the diverse voices of women into the national conversation around fatherhood in the United States.
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As if the French government hadn't done enough to damage its reputation with respect to its protection of religious and ethnic minorities in recent weeks, the French senate yesterday approved a ban on wearing Islamic face veils anywhere in public.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: discrimination, European Court of Human Rights, France, Helene Irving, integration, Muslims, veil ban, women