The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia

Six days ago a most disturbing article was posted on the website VICE, written by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky entitled "The Ghost Rapes of B...

Anti-Rape Fashion

From the Daily Beast : “You might find a bit of armor useful when you become queen,” Cersei Lannister recently told a female rival on  Game ...

Sorry State of Women In India

Tragic tales of violence against women and children has emerged from India.  Here are just a few of the headlines that have appeared this we...

Epidemic of Rape in Peru

From RH Reality Check : Peru, while famous for its modern culinary delights and ancient civilizations, also has a far less flattering distin...

New Delhi Gang Rape Outrage

From Time World : Last Sunday in New Delhi, at around 9.30 p.m., a 23-year-old woman was gang raped for almost an hour on a moving bus and t...

Maids Rescued From Captivity

From The Star : Immigration officers rescued 105 foreign women found locked in a four-storey maid agency in Bandar Baru Klang here during a ...

Iran: Four Women Stoned To Death

Varying reports are surfacing that four Iranian women have been stoned to death. Read More Here -:  MFS - The Other News : Based on reports ...

Girl Challenges Taliban

From the Post Gazette : The Taliban's attempted murder of a 14-year-old girl simply because she campaigned for the right of Pakistani gi...

Manchester Female Reformers At Peterloo Massacre

From the Guardian : The  Peterloo massacre    on Monday 16 August 1819 - 193 years ago tomorrow - took place when a peaceful crowd, assemble...

Man Beheads Daughter

From NineMSN : An Indian father beheaded his daughter with a sword and paraded it through his village after learning of her alleged "in...

Pakistani Women Has New Nose After 32 Years

From Gulf News : After six years of abuse, Allah Rakhi was in the process of walking out of her marriage when her husband struck once again....

Witchcraft in Tanzania

From the Daily Telegraph : SOME 3000 people suspected of witchcraft, mainly old women, were lynched in Tanzania from 2005 to 2011, a leading...

Women Violated in War Denied Memorials

From We:news : Japanese officials are trying to remove a small monument to Korean "comfort women" in New Jersey. Rochelle Saidel s...

Fear Of Reprisals Over "Saving Face"

From LINK : Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made history earlier this year when she won Pakistan’s first Oscar, feted across the country for exposing ...

Jharkhand Women Still Witchcraft Victims

From the Daily Pioneer : In a shocking revelation, a report released by Jharkhand Human Rights Movement 2001-2011, says every three days a w...

End Invasion Searches Of Female Prisoners

From Detriot Free Press : The American Civil Liberties Union said it plans today to urge the Michigan Department of Corrections to ban an in...

Oksana Loses Her Brave Battle

From the Sydney Morning Herald : An 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who prosecutors say was gang-raped, half-strangled and then set on fire in a...

Update on Egyptian Virginity Test Case

Following on from this June post on Egypt: Virginity Test On Female Protestors , comes this update from VOA : Perhaps more surprising than a...

Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme

From The Guardian : A man whose daughter was murdered by her violent boyfriend has handed in a petition at Downing Street calling for a chan...

Canada - Honour Killing

From the Sydney Morning Herald : An Afghan immigrant couple and their son have been found guilty in a Canadian court of first degree murder ...