sexual violence

Sexual violence on ‘staggering’ scale in Sudan civil war: UN probe

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Sexual violence on ‘staggering’ scale in Sudan civil war: UN probe

Geneva: Rape is widespread in Sudan’s civil war, a United Nations investigation said Tuesday, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a “staggering” scale. Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said in a new report. … Read more

CNN investigates female and male protesters’ accounts of sexual assault in Iranian detention centers

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CNN investigates female and male protesters’ accounts of sexual assault in Iranian detention centers

They’d choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite … … then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private room.” “They would sexually assault them there.” CNN Special Report Covert testimonies reveal sexual assaults on male and female activists as a women-led uprising spreads By Tamara … Read more