The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict was held last week in London, the largest gathering to ever happen on the subject. Co-chaired by the UK foreign secretary William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, the summit gathered delegations from 129 countries, including 79 ministers. This gathering aimed at bringing the international …
A 20-year-old village woman was gang-raped on orders from tribal elders who objected to her relationship with a man
El-Haddad accuses criminals of pretending to be revolutionaries
Assailants break into meeting point and harass female members of the anti-sexual harassment movement
The attack is disturbingly similar to the December 16 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi, where five men are on trial in a case that has fuelled anger across India over the treatment of women.
Mukesh Singh, who is the brother of the bus driver Ram Singh, and Thakur are two of the five men charged with rape and murder over the 16 December attack on the young student
Protests in India, which continued on Monday and on New Year’s Eve, have also spilled to other parts of the world with people taking to the streets in Hong Kong, Islamabad, London and Kathmandu
Gang-rapes are a daily occurrence in India and many go unreported by victims who have little faith in an often painfully slow justice system
The number of rape cases in New Delhi has risen 17 percent from 2011 to 661 this year
