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Afghanistan - New Shia Family Law - Highly ControversiaL

Published date: 
31 Mar 2009
Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law which "legalises" rape, women's groups and the United Nations warn. Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through parliament in a bid to appease Islamic fundamentalists ahead of elections in August.

NAMIBIA: Gender Legislation Futile If Not Implemented

Published date: 
30 Mar 2009
Namibian women's rights activists say existing gender legislation has failed to improve women's lives because it is not being implemented widely enough. Last August, Namibia signed the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gender protocol but politicians have yet to ratify it.

Marshall Islands Student Survey Finds High Levels Of Incest

Published date: 
17 Mar 2009
A survey reveals that one in five students in the Marshall Islands has been raped by a relative.

Video: Confronting Rape on Zimbabwe's Border

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 11/03/2009 - 15:15
Publisher: 
New York Times
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://video.nytimes.com/
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
As some women flee from political chaos and economic collapse in Zimbabwe, waiting for them on both sides of the border are gumagumas, men who offer themselves as guides but are actually rapists.
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Video: Confronting Rape on Zimbabwe's Border

Darfur Women Expect Worst Crisis If ICC Indicts Bashir

Published date: 
6 Jan 2009

Sudanese female leaders who attended the peace forum in Ethiopia said the situation in Dafur might have intense effects on the welfare and security of the women there. 

Activists Slam World's ‘Grotesque Indifference’ To DRC

Published date: 
17 Dec 2008
International lust for the enormous mineral and resource riches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) abetted by international indifference has turned much of country into a colossal ‘rape mine' where more than 300,000 women and girls have been brutalised, activists say.

Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 09:40
Publisher: 
Centre for Women's Global Leadership
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
Author: 
Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A. Nordstrom
Published Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Strengthening Resistance focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. From street theater to telenovelas/soap operas to traditional lobbying, activists in both VAW and HIV/AIDS communities are beginning to work together to focus attention to ways both crises are causes and consequences of each other. Neither can be addressed adequately without taking into account the links between them and the human rights implications of each crisis on its own, and in conjunction with the other.
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Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)

SHUKUMISA! A Call to Account

"Shukumisa" means to stir and shake up - which is what the Campaign intends do. Shukumisa will stir and shake up social attitudes to sexual violence and the treatment of survivors in their encounters with state services throughout the criminal justice process. The Campaign was developed by the National Working Group on Sexual Offences, a network of 26 civil society organisations from around South Africa in 2003 to ensure that effective and appropriate laws around sexual offences were passed.

The Campaign will undertake the following key actions:

Campaign location: 
South Africa (National)
Contact Person Name: 
Lisa Vetten
Contact Phone Number: 
011 403-8230/4267 or 0828226725
Email: 
lisa@tlac.org.za
Campaign website URL: 
http://www.shukumisa.org.za

An Islamic Perspective on Violence Against Women

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Mon, 18/08/2008 - 12:30
Publisher: 
Muslim Women's League
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.mwlusa.org/topics/violence&harrassment/violence.html
Author: 
Muslim Women's League
Published Date: 
1996
Abstract: 

 While women in many parts of the world have made advances in areas previously closed to them, the problem of violence against women remains pervasive. Unfortunately, this violence takes many forms and occurs across national, cultural, racial, and religious borders.

Islam condemns all forms of violence against women. The basic Islamic premise of equality between women and men cannot be achieved so long as violence against women persists.

In pre-Islamic Arabia violence against women began at birth in the form of female infanticide. Islam prohibited the practice of female infanticide. Not only did the Quran prohibit this practice, it also mocks those who view the birth of a girl child with contempt. (Quran 16:58-59).
 

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An Islamic Perspective on Violence Against Women

Raped by the System

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 13:02
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za/
Author: 
CSVR
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
"I used to see it in prison. Others were raped, but it never happened to me," said a convicted fraudster who spent seven years in jail, most of them at Cape Town's notorious Pollsmoor Prison. His claim about his own treatment is improbable. Experts and ex-prisoners say the young, the good-looking, homosexuals, the weak and those convicted of white-collar or "sissy" crimes are most vulnerable to male rape in South Africa's prisons. Such is the secretive nature of male rape that survivors view it through the lens of denial and avoidance. And an ill-equipped criminal justice system remains unwilling to admit, let alone tackle, its pervasiveness.
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