The United States condemns in the strongest terms the recently reported mass rapes against innocent civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo committed by elements of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
Further momentum was generated towards a global, militant women's movement with the establishment of an International Women's Alliance (IWA) this afternoon following the Montreal International Women's Conference.
Katie Couric interviews HRW researcher Zama Coursen-Neff. Ongoing Taliban attacks on women in Afghanistan show why women's rights should be a priority in any political agreement with insurgent forces. To see the interview please click here.
Human Rights Watch have written an Letter to the Saudi Human Rights Commission on behalf of Aisha Ali and urged for intervention on behalf of Aisha Ali, a 28-year-old Saudi divorced mother of three currently living in Buraida. She alleges that her brothers routinely beat her, forcibly confined her, and forced her into multiple marriages.
The first international campaign to protect women from gun violence in the home. Perhaps most shockingly, the greatest risk of gun violence to women around the world is not on the streets, or the battlefield, but in their own homes. Women are three times more likely to die violently if there is a gun in the house. Usually the perpetrator is a spouse or partner, often with a prior record of domestic abuse.
We often hear people say that women in Lebanon are the most emancipated in the Middle East region. But this saying isn't exactly true because it is only based on the rich Lebanese minority who drives luxurious cars, and enjoys the pink side of life frequenting the most famous restaurants of the country's capital.
"Our bodies ... their battlegrounds" highlights the crisis facing women, girls and infants throughout the world, both during conflict and in its wake. This film gives a voice to victims of rape in The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia, and seeks to challenge the culture of impunity that allows this violence to continue unchecked. In 2005, IRIN was awarded the first prize for Our Bodies...
Exclusive Interview between PRAVDA.Ru* and UNIFEM Chief of Governance for Peace and Security Ms. Anne-Marie Goetz, who states that the way we think about gender and war has changed in the last decade, although a lot more needs to be done. What is the situation regarding women's rights in conflict zones, what can Governments do, and fundamentally, what can you do?
