Human Rights Watch researcher Amanda Klasing underscores the public health imperative to end violence against women, noting that there are few instances in which the health and human rights of women and girls “intersect in such an immediate way as after violence.”
Lily Boisson of CBC News writes that Somali women fleeing drought and famine in their home country face sexual and gender-based violence as they journey to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Signed by President Karzai in March, Afghanistan’s Shia Family Law contains provisions that legalize marital rape and child marriage, and …Continue Reading