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Justice Overturned In the remote desert villages of Pakistan beyond the reach of government courts, tribal law is often the only adjudicator of local disputes - and the use of rape to settle scores is common. In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was publicly raped by four volunteers in the hamlet of Meerwala in central Pakistan on the orders of village elders. She had committed no crime: her 12-year-old brother had been accused of walking with a girl from the higher Mastoi caste, and Mai was chosen to bear the punishment for her family. Victims of such...
Trying Time FRANCE A court case in which 66 men and women stand accused of involvement in a child sex ring opened in the western town of Angers. The defendants face charges ranging from rape and sexual abuse to failure to report an offense. Prosecutors say that many of the 45 alleged victims, some of whom were just a few months old at the time, were abused or peddled by their own parents. The case is expected to last four months...
...think the trivial tone of the website makes a mockery of the deaths of 340,000 dead human beings in Darfur, the gang rape of countless black women, and the displacement of over 2 million people who now are confronted with the threat of starvation by labeling it as the ‘left-wing cause of the week,’” Terry wrote in an e-mail...
...front lines in the culture wars. A court brief revealed last week that the state's pro-life attorney general, Phill Kline, has obtained subpoenas for the medical records of nearly 90 women who had late-term abortions, as part of an inquiry into possible cases of statutory rape, among other crimes. The investigation became public when the two clinics holding the records asked the Kansas Supreme Court to quash or limit the order. Not all the records are for women under 16, the age of consent in Kansas, which is why pro-choice activists fear Kline may be using...
Zainab Salbi was a terrified teenager in Baghdad during the war between Iran and Iraq. Bombs routinely fell around her house. Years later, as a 23-year-old student at George Mason University in Virginia, she read a TIME article about the systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers, and it moved her to action. "I grew up in a war, so I was drawn to suffering," she says. Within six months, having raised $2,000 with the help of a local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women...