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Rape By Peacekeepers in Central African Republic

Rape By Peacekeepers in Central African Republic

United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic raped or sexually exploited at least eight women and girls between October and December 2015. Among the survivors are a 14-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman who said peacekeepers gang-raped them near Bambari airport in the center of the country. “In a country where armed groups routinely […]

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rape

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rape

TO MOLEFE argues that whenever we speak about rape in hedged, legalistic prose, we simply reinforce rape culture. “The alleged allegations of an alleged rape allegedly levelled in an alleged manner against, allegedly, the alleged rapist… ” That is not a verbatim quote. It is University of Cape Town’s November 16 statement on the #RapeAtAzania […]

UN Envoy Commends South Sudanese Opposition Commanders’ Plan to Prevent Rape

UN Envoy Commends South Sudanese Opposition Commanders’ Plan to Prevent Rape

The United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict today commended 54 ranking members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition (SPLA-IO) for signing “explicit undertakings” to prevent conflict-related sexual violence. “This is an encouraging step towards the protection of women, children and men of South Sudan from such crimes,” said […]

We’ll Castrate Rapists, Government Seriously Considering Option – Mugabe

We’ll Castrate Rapists, Government Seriously Considering Option – Mugabe

THE government is “seriously” considering castration for rapists, especially those who violate children, President Robert Mugabe warned Tuesday. Said the veteran leader: “What sort of men have we become, raping our babies in some cases your own? What has entered this house of freedom, the Zimbabwe house of freedom? “We are saying to our own […]

One of the Indian women sentenced to be gang-raped speaks of her fear

One of the Indian women sentenced to be gang-raped speaks of her fear

One of the sisters sentenced to be gang-raped in India has spoken out about her terrifying ordeal. Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister fled her village after the elders decided they were to be gang-raped as punishment for their brother who ran away with a married woman. She now lives in fear that someone […]

“Rape capital of the world” DR Congo bans film on Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege who saves rape victims

“Rape capital of the world” DR Congo bans film on Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege who saves rape victims

The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned a film about Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of women raped during conflict, the government said. Belgian film-maker Thierry Michel’s movie, “The Man Who Mends Women,” follows Mukwege’s efforts to repair the physical and psychological injuries of the victims of sexual violence by armed forces […]

How ISIS has established a bureaucracy of rape

How ISIS has established a bureaucracy of rape

One year on from the summit to end sexual violence in conflict, convened by Angelina Jolie and William Hague in London, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has developed a complex bureaucracy of sex slavery that makes a mockery of the summit’s goal to bring about an end to the use of rape and sexual violence in […]

Bulawayo Man (47) Caged 12 Years for Raping Friend’s Daughter

Bulawayo Man (47) Caged 12 Years for Raping Friend’s Daughter

A 47-year old man who raped his friend’s daughter has been sentenced to twenty years in jail. Dumisani Mkandla of Magwegwe North suburb appeared before acting regional magistrate Chrispen Mberewere facing rape charges. Mkandla, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, was sentenced to twenty years in prison of which five years were suspended on […]

Officials Say ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller

Officials Say ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller

PHOTO: A video posted on a jihadi Twitter feed showed what purports to be the first known video of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to […]

If you run they will kill you, forced to watch rape – South Sudan’s war on women

If you run they will kill you, forced to watch rape – South Sudan’s war on women

When government forces launched their attack on the village of Bauw in South Sudan’s Unity state in early summer, Nyaduri and several other women fled into the bush. Their hiding place only gave them protection for so long. Fighters soon followed them. In the end Nyaduri was spared, thanks to her visibly swollen pregnant belly. […]

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