What the UN Can Learn from the Women of Burundi
Kigali, Rwanda — If you’ve never been to a birthday party for a UN Security Council resolution, well, get out your party shoes. Today…
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Can Microcredit Help Rape Survivors Heal?
There are so many bits of reporting that never make it out of my notebooks, so many interesting things I learn that I can’t…
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Liberia’s Rape Court
Kigali, Rwanda — Last year, I reported with the intrepid Glenna Gordon a story about Liberia’s Court E, a court chamber in the capital…
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Congo War Leaves Legacy of Sexual Violence Against Women
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — In the Democratic Republic of Congo, sexual violence has become so common that the eastern provinces are sometimes…
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Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War: A Comprehensive Report
In Africa, Inheriting a Field or a Feud?
Saniquellie, Liberia — A trip to a rice farm near here is like visiting a West African version of the Secret Garden. There’s a…
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Letterman Protest Misses Real Rape Crisis
By the time the crowd gathers outside David Letterman’s studio today, it will be midnight in Iran, and hundreds of thousands of citizens who…
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Rwandans Opt to Redefine Beauty
BUTARE, RWANDA — Sandra Uwimbabazi knows runways – she’s modeled for years – but she stumbled on a recent Saturday here. A tall, slender…
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In Africa, Justice for Bush Wives
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — Fatmata Jalloh was just a kid selling pancakes on a rural road in Sierra Leone when a rebel soldier snatched…
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