Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Sexual Violence'
"No Justice? No Peace!" The Women Absent from Colombia's Peace Talks
by Moira Birss -Colombia- “No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies, felt so real to me as during the last few months observing the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian...
Female Perspectives on Ending Sexual Violence: Choosing Peace over Fear
by Stephanie Koehler -USA- The vision of “Female Perspectives on Ending Sexual Violence” is to unite women from all over the world to document the pain they suffer as a result of sexual violence and the healing approach they have...
Breaking the Silence: Rallying around the World to End Gender-based Street Harassment
by Holly Kearl -USA- What does a woman in Bangalore, India, standing on a busy street corner, waiting for a bus have in common with a teenage girl in Queens, New York, dressed in her school uniform, waiting for the...
New Egypt Inherits Old Egypt’s Sexual Violence
by Manar Ammar -Egypt- The sexual assault on CBS news correspondent Lara Logan at the hands of 200 Egyptian men in Tahrir Square the night former president Hosni Mubarak resigned came as no surprise to any woman who has been...
A Personal Responsibility to End Sexual Violence Worldwide
by Stephanie Koehler -USA- How many rapes will it take to bring to our consciousness the devastating consequences inflicted on both rape survivors and society? How many more rapes do we need to hear about to make this plague our...
Cultural Stigma and Myth: Disabled Women in Kenya are Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
by Rosemary Okello - Kenya - In the face of escalating of sexual violence in Kenya, women with disabilities are more vulnerable than ever. A recent study by the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA-K) - a women’s rights...
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