Even Harder Times Ahead For Displaced In DR Congo
The World Food Programme is currently experiencing a shortage of funds - and consequently of food stocks - for its operations in DRC. This has already forced WFP to cut food rations in camps for displaced people in the east of the country. So serious has the funding situation now become that food assistance to many is set to be stopped altogether in coming months.
Cambodians confront taboo on Khmer Rouge sex crimes
The narrative of the genocide has long kept a dark secret: that rape and sexual torture were a daily reality under Pol Pot
"Sextortion": An old form of corruption gets new attention
When the currency of the bribe is sex, not money, the path of the law is murkier and evidence more elusive
Greek police report spike in domestic abuse cases
Is Greece's economic crisis exacerbating domestic violence? Experts are divided.
Italian men seek help to stop battering wives and partners
"When we argued I felt cornered, like I was about to lose everything." Many of the men who commit violence against their women say they feel cornered, frustrated and they feel the need to shut the woman up
Syrian Mothers Anguished by Children's War Trauma
In a group therapy session in Jordan, refugee women unload about the difficulties of caring for children afflicted by nightmares, aggressive outbursts and PTSD symptoms. "I have two boys, ages 3 and 5. They are scared of everything," says one participant.
Indian magazine editor arrested on sexual assault charges
Tarun Tejpal, founder of the award-winning weekly Tehelka magazine, was arrested over allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman colleague
Retired Indian judge denies sexual harassment allegations
Former Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, 66, said he was “shocked and shattered” by the allegations made against him by a 22-year-old lawyer who had interned with him
Pakistani Climbs for Change; Syrian Refugees Assaulted
Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, is planning to climb to the summits of seven major peaks for women's empowerment. In Lebanon, female refugees who escaped Syria's conflict say they have been sexually harassed.