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Nigeria

Sex Traffickers Target Teenage Girls in Nigeria’s IDP Camp

On a breezy evening in early January 2021, six teens — five girls and one boy — walked briskly behind Madame Joy as she led the way to a motor park to catch a night bus due to depart from Makurdi —...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
19 Jan 2022
Originally published
18 Jan 2022

Pakistan

Backlash Over New Mobile Health Initiative Exposes Digital Gender Divide in Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan — The day in November 2020 that Shaista Bhatti, a 45-year-old Lady Health Worker (LHW) in Pakistan, fell ill, she had visited her younger sister, Shazia, who insisted on taking her...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
10 Sep 2021
Originally published
9 Sep 2021

India

India’s Women Frontline Community Health Care Workers Tracing COVID-19 Are Left Defenseless

Pune, India — After spending two weeks at a government COVID-19 care facility in Kolhapur — in the western Indian state of Maharashtra — Ashwini Patil, 35, had made a full recovery and was discharged...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
10 Jun 2021
Originally published
9 Jun 2021

Nigeria

Sexual Abuse Thrives in Nigeria’s IDP Camps with No Recourse for Victims

CONTRIBUTOR, JENNIFER UGWA Abuja, Nigeria — In January 2018, Pauline*, 23, fled her village in Tse-Usenda, Guma Local Government, Benue State after Fulani militant herders attacked her community. She...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
30 May 2021
Originally published
28 May 2021

Philippines + 1 more

Wives, Widows, and Mothers: The New Faces of Violent Extremism in the Philippines

On the last Sunday morning in January 2019, a homemade bomb pierced through the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province in the southern Philippines. As parishioners...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
3 May 2021
Originally published
30 Apr 2021

India

The Silent Mental Health Crisis Among Women in Kashmir

Srinagar, Indian-Administered Kashmir --- On May 19, 2020, the city of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, awoke to a gunfight between the counter-insurgency grid of the Indian state...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
5 Dec 2020
Originally published
5 Dec 2020

Greece

Periods Don’t Stop During a Pandemic, But Supply of Hygiene Products in a Locked-Down Refugee Camp Does

It has been five months of lockdown for refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, the center of the refugee crisis in Europe. While Greece began reopening in May — even welcoming tourists again —...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
18 Aug 2020
Originally published
17 Aug 2020

Syria

Amid Syria’s civil war, a rise in miscarriages among displaced women in the northeast

Updated at 2:02pm EST with information on the first COVID-19 case confirmed in Syria. Kobane, Syria—Miscarriages have surged among displaced women in northeastern Syria over the last several months,...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
24 Mar 2020
Originally published
23 Mar 2020

Myanmar

There can be no real accountability in Myanmar if women remain on the sidelines

For decades, ethnic women in Myanmar have documented acts of sexual violence committed against them in the hopes that, one day, perpetrators will be held accountable for their crimes. They had...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
21 Nov 2019
Originally published
20 Nov 2019

Guatemala

Maya Achi women demand justice for wartime sexualized violence in Guatemala

“We are women who have suffered. The culprits need to realize the harm they caused, the errors they committed,” said María*, one of 36 Maya Achi women who are bringing a case against soldiers who had...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
19 Jun 2019
Originally published
18 Jun 2019

DR Congo

Mass rape in Congo demands a more nuanced understanding than the cell phone in your pocket

When Dr. Denis Mukwege was awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize last October, international attention was renewed to the "flamboyant brutality" of mass sexualized violence in eastern Democratic...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
12 Jun 2019
Originally published
12 Jun 2019

Mexico

Women shoulder the burden of internal displacement in Mexico

Mexico City—“Every night she asks me, ‘Why are we sleeping out here on the ground and not in the palace?’” Doña Marisela Cástulo Guzmán said, gesturing to her seven-year-old daughter, Frida. Last...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
4 May 2019
Originally published
3 May 2019

Nigeria

How women are reconstructing their lives after the horrors of Boko Haram

Maiduguri, Nigeria—When Boko Haram militants captured the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza in August 2014, 45-year-old Amina Mohammed was still reeling from the loss of her husband. He’d died two...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
12 Oct 2018
Originally published
12 Oct 2018

World + 2 more

Yet again, the world is failing genocide victims

Today marks four years since ISIS launched their genocidal campaign against the Yezidi community in Sinjar. Since the initial attack in August 2014, thousands of Yezidi women and men have been...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
4 Aug 2018
Originally published
3 Aug 2018

Nigeria

The Nigerian schoolgirls helping trafficked women rebuild their lives

Maiduguri, Nigeria—When a group of women came to Maryam Muhammad and offered to pay for her trip from Maiduguri in Nigeria to Saudi Arabia to take part in the Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca,...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
20 Jul 2018
Originally published
19 Jul 2018

Kenya

Learning ways to convict rapists in Kenya—other than by checking a survivor’s hymen

Over the years, Magistrate Judge Harrison Adika has heard more sexualized violence cases than he can count at courts in Nyeri and Kisumu in central Kenya. But Adika says many defendants facing such...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
9 Jun 2018
Originally published
9 Jun 2018

Afghanistan

Afghan women will only be ‘empowered’ when they are free from violence

In Afghanistan, "economic empowerment” is a buzzword of the day, most frequently used by starry-eyed donors and development workers as they implement employment schemes, skill-development programs...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
7 Mar 2018
Originally published
6 Mar 2018

Uganda

Attitudes shifting to include girls' education in African refugee settlements

If 19-year-old Rose Alek* could have one wish granted, it would be to complete her education. Following her parents’ death, Alek relocated from her home in South Sudan at the age of 6 with her...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
9 Feb 2018
Originally published
8 Feb 2018

Syria

Rape: A weapon of war with long-term consequences

Rahaf feared going home. Her clothes had been torn, making visible the painful red welts that would turn into eggplant-colored bruises. On her arms and legs, her family and fiance would be able to...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
22 Sep 2017
Originally published
13 Sep 2017

Kenya

Survivors unite, fearing a repeat of rape in upcoming Kenyan election

By Joyce J. Wangui/Guest blogger — July 18, 2017 Nairobi—In the violence that rocked Kenya following the disputed elections of 2007, the media reported hundreds of cases of sexualized violence...

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  • Women's Media Center
Posted
19 Jul 2017
Originally published
18 Jul 2017

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