Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – It’s been nearly three decades since Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship came to an end, but the sex crimes committed against political prisoners are just now starting to draw more attention, after being pushed into the background in human [...]
Hotel Maids Say Sexual Harassment Is Part of the Job
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aline Cunico NEW YORK, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – With the arrest of the once powerful head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following allegations that he raped a maid in his 3,000-dollar-a-night penthouse suite at the Sofitel Hotel, a spotlight has been turned on [...]
INDIA: 60 Registered Rapes a Day
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K. S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Mar 1, 2011 (IPS) – It was just past 9 p.m. of Feb. 1 when guards of the Ernakulam-Shornur train found 23-year-old Soumya, an accountant, unconscious near the railway tracks at Vettikkattiri in Thrissur district, Kerala state. Soumya was her family’s breadwinner [...]
SUDAN: Rape Is Not Adultery
October 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Reem Abbas KHARTOUM, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) – Women in the Sudanese region of Darfur have been raped with impunity since the start of the conflict there in 2003. Now a campaign to reform the rape law is gaining momentum in the country, promoted by Alliance 149, [...]
DR CONGO: ‘An Opportunity to Say Never Again’
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baudry Aluma SOUTH KIVU, DR Congo, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – Civil society in the DRC’s eastern province of South Kivu is determined that meaningful action will follow from the publication of the U.N.’s Mapping Project, a report detailing some of the most serious human rights violations [...]
U.N. Weighs Sanctions Against Perpetrators of DRC Mass Rapes
September 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 (IPS) – The U.N. Security Council is considering leveraging sanctions against the perpetrators of the mass rapes that occurred last month in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following a meeting held on the recent violence Tuesday. “From the U.S. point [...]
DR-CONGO: Mass Gang Rape Exposes Systematic Sexual Violence
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) – A U.N. human rights investigation mission will be launched in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Wednesday, U.N. officials announced Tuesday, after gruesome reports surfaced in the media of the systematic gang rape of nearly 200 [...]
RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: Weak Laws Let Rapists Off the Hook
March 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Suad Hamada MANAMA, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS) – Cunning rapists in Bahrain can avoid victimising virgins so they could escape the maximum penalty provided by law, and those who force themselves on young girls can evade punishment by promising to marry their victims. These are two of [...]
PERU: Victims of Military Rapists Wait for Justice 25 Years On
January 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS LIMA Ángel Páez, Jan 20 (IPS) – ”I want justice. That will be a kind of peace,” says Micaela, a 40-year-old woman from the Andean region of Peru who is a survivor of the sexual violence prevalent during the 1980-2000 civil war. Twenty-five years ago, soldiers assaulted her at [...]
RIGHTS-AFRICA: The fight against rape a brutal wait
September 14, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Rebecca Murray MONROVIA, Liberia, Sep 14 (IPS) – Monrovia’s highest hill, the long sliver of Atlantic Ocean shoreline at the mouth of the Mesurado River, with its aqua blue waves, golden sand and wooden fishing boats, looks like paradise. But this is West Point; one of Monrovia’s most impoverished [...]
