Posts Tagged ‘rape’
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had to [...]
How to: Be a junta!
Foreign Policy mag has an amazing slideshow up right now. Say what you will about its Gettleman piece, but “The Ultimate Idiot’s Guide to Being an African Junta” is fantastically surreal. David Crane — you remember him, surely, from his role prosecuting some of the most notorious war criminals in recent West African [...]
Actually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo, Nick Kristof” email, I mentioned I’d face a similar, though totally unscrutinized, decision in Liberia last year. He replied that he had too — and he’d not used a girl’s name, [...]
When can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got up to another email from Nick Kristof. Thanks, Nick, for taking the time to talk with me about this. Readers might want to see Part II.
There was a bit of a [...]
Justice and rape in Liberia
Glenna Gordon and I have a couple posts up on the Pulitzer Center blog focused on justice and rape in Liberia. The first gives some background on the difficulties of prosecution here and the second gives two different takes (hers and mine) on how to handle the confidentiality of victims.
On confidentiality in genera, here’s [...]
"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit of a thing about this…
So the New York Times’ new West Africa guy is covering the violence in Guinea. (Missed it? Here’s the Twitter version: Government soldiers killed [...]
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