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Sexual violence

News, comment and features on sexual violence in the developing world

August 2024

  • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

    She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

    Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence
  • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

    Rights and freedom
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

    After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka thought she could make a difference in parliament. A new documentary tells of her disillusion with the healing process, and why she is passionate about seeking justice for the violated women without a voice
  • A man in combat fatigues stands by a mental door aiming a rifle at an unseen target

    UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

    Armed gangs control much of Caribbean country’s capital with reports of 40 rape victims a day in areas, UN reports

July 2024

  • A trans woman looks out of a grill over a window on to a street

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We are killed for what we are’: trans women in Colombia targeted by armed groups

    More than 40 transgender women were killed last year, with armed groups’ threatening a further wave of ‘social cleansing’ in Caquetá
  • Two black African soldiers in camouflage holding guns and surrounded by rocket-propelled grenades seen on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

    Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war

    • ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

    • Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

    • Rights and freedom
      Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

June 2024

  • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

    India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

    Rights groups protesting at Modi government’s view that criminalising sexual assault violates ‘sanctity’ of marriage
  • An old woman in a headscarf sits in a tent holding a photograph of a ruined house

    Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps

    A decade after tens of thousands of Yazidis escaped an Islamic State attack many fear return to a home in ruins
  • Three women, moved to tears, are interviewed by the press outside a court building in Lima.

    Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict

    ‘Landmark’ case is first to deal with use of sexual violence in state’s conflict with Shining Path rebels four decades ago

May 2024

  • 'Mother and Child', a sculpture by Rebecca Hawkins in St James's Square, London, for Justice for Lai Dai Han, commemorating victims of sexual violence<br>2B721PW 'Mother and Child', a sculpture by Rebecca Hawkins in St James's Square, London, for Justice for Lai Dai Han, commemorating victims of sexual violence

    Opinion
    Children of Vietnam war’s rape survivors unjustly bear the burden of others’ crimes

    Tran Thi Ngai
    From being branded Lai Dai Han, a derogatory term, to a lack of access to education and services, these children face a life of stigma. Our country must acknowledge their need for justice
  • Film still: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl. Directed by Rungano Nyoni

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse

    Nyoni uses unsettlingly playful surrealism in this account of a malign uncle and the family mythmaking that effaces his crimes

    • ‘Impunity is growing’: French celebrities call for law to crack down on sexism and sexual violence

    • The future of work
      Soaring number of migrants trapped in Yemen face abuse and starvation, say NGOs

    • Opinion
      From Colombia to Syria justice is possible for survivors of sexual violence in war

      Clara Sandoval

April 2024

  • Greying African man wearing a suit jacket, shirt and tie looks at camera

    The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC

  • Moira Donegan

    The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

    Moira Donegan
  • Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock (12904693d) Ukrainian women from the "Vitsche" and "Voices of Ukraine" initiatives protest in front of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian army during the war in Ukraine. They call for an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make financing the war more difficult./Ukrainian women of the initiatives "Vitsche" and "voices of Ukraine" protest bloodied and partially tied up in front of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian Army during the War in Ukraine. They demand an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make it harder to finance the war. Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022

    Rights and freedom
    Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine

  • Semi-uniformed men fire their AK-47 assault rifles in the air in a city

    UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

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