Nov 25, 2024 · I didn’t want to have [the baby] because it was the product of rape. I didn’t want my family to find out.” She was sentenced to 12 months in prison and was released after …

Dec 16, 2024 · Rape in the Homes of Civilians. On the morning of December 31, 2023, after hostilities that led to the RSF taking control of the town of Habila from the SAF, RSF fighters …

Jan 31, 1999 · Rape in prison is rarely a sexual act, but one of violence, politics, and an acting out of power roles.-- Journalist and prisoner Wilbert Rideau, in "The Sexual Jungle" (266)

Jul 16, 2016 · 253 Rape and other forms of sexual violence can be defined as constituent elements of genocide. Genocide is defined under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and …

Nov 25, 2024 · Between January and October, nearly 4,000 girls and women reported sexual violence, including gang rape, mostly committed by members of criminal groups, according to …

Nov 16, 2017 · All but one of the rapes reported to Human Rights Watch were gang rapes, involving two or more perpetrators. In eight cases women and girls reported being raped by …

Apr 15, 2015 · Rape and other forms of sexual violence, sexual slavery, cruel treatment, and other abuses committed during an armed conflict violate the laws of war. International criminal …

Sep 3, 1996 · Unsurprisingly--given that physical force, or at least the implicit threat of physical force, is a common element of rape in prison--victims of rape tend to be smaller and weaker …

Rape, sexual enslavement, forced prostitution, forced sterilization, forced abortion and forced pregnancy--that is, impregnation with the intent of forcing a woman to give birth to the rapist's ...

Feb 13, 2014 · Rape is not considered as a big deal here in Somalia and it is only civil society organizations that shout about sexual and gender-based violence [SGBV]. Corruption, …