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No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. But one day, while on her boss’ property, she went...
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Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.
A friend...
made popular Nov 18 2009
A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-year-old Margarita...
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The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and...
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Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear...
made popular Nov 4 2009
A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six...
made popular Nov 2 2009
The alleged victim, who cannot be named, returned from playing near her home in Hayes, west London, on Tuesday afternoon to tell her mother that she had been raped by...
made popular Oct 31 2009
A California high school student who police said was gang raped in a two-and-a-half-hour assault outside a homecoming dance remained hospitalized in stable condition...
made popular Oct 27 2009
When this woman was married to Dharmesh seven years ago little did she suspect that her life was about to become a journey through hell.
A Rajkot woman did not...
made popular Oct 27 2009
A 21-year-old waitress lost her job at the Coq D’Argent restaurant in London. She had apparently not been pulling her weight and was taking too much time off....
made popular Oct 24 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been putting women’s issues at the center of her work: speaking out forcefully against recent rapes in Guinea, leading a...
made popular Oct 22 2009
I have interviewed women and even child survivors of sexual violence before, mostly during civil wars in conflict zones. Naturally, my heart went out to them.
But when...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her...
made popular Oct 22 2009
The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Prosecutors are investigating claims that the former head chef and chief groundskeeper at the Oklahoma governor’s mansion raped three female prison inmates...
made popular Oct 13 2009
The Islamic Republic of Iran is religious country following the Shiite Islam Jurisprudence (School of thought). Iranians enforce strictly their religious laws upon...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who...
made popular Oct 6 2009
France is considering the compulsory “chemical castration” of sexual criminals after a woman jogger was murdered in a forest south of Paris by a convicted...
made popular Oct 6 2009
An Iranian man and a woman made the allegations in separate interviews with CNN. Both said they fled to Turkey from Iran after claiming to have been threatened by...
made popular Oct 3 2009
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One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his...
made popular Nov 6 2009
I have interviewed women and even child survivors of sexual violence before, mostly during civil wars in conflict zones. Naturally, my heart went out to them.
But when...
made popular Oct 22 2009
The recent nerve wracking incident of the mid-air scuffle and the molestation of an air hostess by pilots of Air India is making the headlines these days.
The real...
made popular Oct 6 2009
In the recent past there has been talk about enforcing a dress code for college girls. In fact, some colleges in Kanpur, Hyderabad and Lucknow have already done so. The...
made popular Oct 5 2009
It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest’s bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.
When he was a young boy...
made popular Sep 14 2009
Children in Colombia continue to be killed, maimed, tortured, raped, recruited and abducted in the country’s violent conflict. This despite significant government...
made popular Sep 9 2009
In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of post-election unrest, a semiofficial news service...
made popular Sep 1 2009
Last few decades have witnessed the evaporation of humanity from the face of earth. Instances like the Californian couple case where a 11 year old girl abducted for 18...
made popular Aug 31 2009
An Italian priest who ran an award-winning shelter for homeless children in Brazil has been charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting...
made popular Aug 20 2009
For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.
made popular Aug 12 2009
The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail.
She had been expelled from college...
made popular Aug 11 2009
More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state...
made popular Jul 31 2009
Congolese authorities have failed to prevent widespread rapes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report, citing U.N. data showing 7,703 cases of sexual violence by the...
made popular Jul 16 2009
The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thousands of children were physically and sexually abused by priests and nuns in orphanages and reform schools in Ireland from 1930 to 1990, a government commission...
made popular May 21 2009
As my daily routine starts and my day has to start with a cup of hot green tea and news paper. Every day I get to read at least four to five incidents happen to...
made popular Apr 15 2009
Young teenage girls at a polygamist compound in West Texas were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions,...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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