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Nov 9, 2017 · Uneven Progress in 5 Years Since Delhi Gang Rape. (New York) – Rape survivors in India face significant barriers to obtaining justice and critical support services, Human Rights Watch said in a ...
Feb 15, 2016 · This report is based on interviews with 163 women and girls, nine male survivors, and witnesses of rape or other sexual violence in the post-election period. Human Rights Watch found that most of ...
Jul 31, 2021 · Rape and Other Sexual Violence. The UN special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence, Pramila Patten, condemned alleged sexual violence by the Myanmar authorities. She called ...
Sep 14, 2020 · A police chief’s attempt to blame the survivor of the assault prompted demands not only for reforming the police response to sexual violence cases, but for women’s rights in general. So far ...
Nov 16, 2017 · Since August 25, 2017, Burmese security forces have committed widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine State ...
Sep 30, 2004 · The Rwandan Penal Code of 1977 prohibits defilement, rape, torture, and sexual torture but fails to define these acts.Certain provisions provide for a longer term of imprisonment for the rape of a ...
47 Meron, Rape as a Crime, n.21, citing Commentary on the Geneva Conventions of the 12 August, 1949: Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Oscar M. Uhler ...
Apr 15, 2015 · Human Rights Watch documented a system of organized rape and sexual assault, sexual slavery, and forced marriage by ISIS forces. Such acts are war crimes and may be crimes against humanity. Many ...
Sep 20, 2021 · However, rape survivors did not receive timely and adequate medical care. A local nongovernmental organization provided emergency care to some of the women detainees on September 30, 2020, five ...
May 30, 2019 · No rape survivor should be forced into motherhood without the chance to consider a safe and legal abortion. As Norma, Fatima, Lucia, and Susana brought their cases to the committee in Geneva ...
