Latest items for LRW-DATA-1
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France" (24).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France" (24).
Jan. 17, 2025, 11:50 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2018, nine women leaders from seven unions in Cambodia, representing the garment sector, conducted interviews and held focus groups with 83 women garment workers to gather information about the scope and incidence of GBV [gender based violence] in garment and apparel sectors. Of these respondents: 48% self- identified as targets of gender-based violence at work; 87% experienced verbal harassment or unwanted touching based on their gender; 47% had a supervisor or manager force them to become their mistress or 'second wife' with the understanding that it would improve working conditions; 28% reported that someone at work forced them to sleep with them to extend a contract, fix their sewing...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2018, nine women leaders from seven unions in Cambodia, representing the garment sector, conducted interviews and held focus groups with 83 women garment workers to gather information about the scope and incidence of GBV [gender based violence] in garment and apparel sectors. Of these respondents: 48% self- identified as targets of gender-based violence at work; 87% experienced verbal harassment or unwanted touching based on their gender; 47% had a supervisor or manager force them to become their mistress or 'second wife' with the understanding that it would improve working conditions; 28% reported that someone at work forced them to sleep with them to extend a contract, fix their sewing...more
Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, LRCM-DATA-2
"Every hour, the Public Ministry registers 3 complaints of rape. In the 2013-2018 period, a total of 124,370 complaints against sexual violence were registered in Peru. 83.4% of the victims were minors; 41.2% of the accused was an acquaintance and 38.2% a relative" (7).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, LRCM-DATA-2
"Every hour, the Public Ministry registers 3 complaints of rape. In the 2013-2018 period, a total of 124,370 complaints against sexual violence were registered in Peru. 83.4% of the victims were minors; 41.2% of the accused was an acquaintance and 38.2% a relative" (7).
Jan. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, UVAW-PRACTICE-1
"The most recent data from 2022 shows that almost 450,000 crimes against women were reported, up 4% on the previous year, with more than 7% of the alleged crimes rape related" (par. 14).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, UVAW-PRACTICE-1
"The most recent data from 2022 shows that almost 450,000 crimes against women were reported, up 4% on the previous year, with more than 7% of the alleged crimes rape related" (par. 14).
Jan. 16, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The Peruvian ombudsman’s office said women’s emergency centres dealt with 2,388 rape cases involving girls and adolescents between January and April, or about 20 cases a day" (para 16).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The Peruvian ombudsman’s office said women’s emergency centres dealt with 2,388 rape cases involving girls and adolescents between January and April, or about 20 cases a day" (para 16).
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"With regard to cases reported in the period from 2016 to 2020, the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Protection of Children recorded 6,951 cases for the offence of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in 29 cities" (26).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"With regard to cases reported in the period from 2016 to 2020, the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Protection of Children recorded 6,951 cases for the offence of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in 29 cities" (26).
Jan. 10, 2025, 7 p.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"According to a World Health Organisation study, Maori girls suffer roughly twice as much sexual abuse as European girls – 30.5 per cent of Maori compared with 17 per cent of Europeans in Auckland, and 35.1 per cent of Maori compared with 20.7 per cent of Europeans in one of our rural areas in northern Waikato" (para 8). "Research shows up to 80 percent of Māori and Pacifica women will experience family and sexual violence in their lifetime" (para 18). "It is well documented that violence against Māori and Pasifika women and children are getting worse. Sexual violence is normalised in New Zealand to the point that violence in all...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"According to a World Health Organisation study, Maori girls suffer roughly twice as much sexual abuse as European girls – 30.5 per cent of Maori compared with 17 per cent of Europeans in Auckland, and 35.1 per cent of Maori compared with 20.7 per cent of Europeans in one of our rural areas in northern Waikato" (para 8). "Research shows up to 80 percent of Māori and Pacifica women will experience family and sexual violence in their lifetime" (para 18). "It is well documented that violence against Māori and Pasifika women and children are getting worse. Sexual violence is normalised in New Zealand to the point that violence in all...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata. Most of the rape campaign’s victims were from the Masalit community, a darker-skinned ethnic African tribe that made up a majority in Geneina before they were largely driven out during fighting that began in April last year. The survivors’ group was founded by Mariam Abdulkarim (not her real name), an Arab former high school teacher, without any funding or professional...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata. Most of the rape campaign’s victims were from the Masalit community, a darker-skinned ethnic African tribe that made up a majority in Geneina before they were largely driven out during fighting that began in April last year. The survivors’ group was founded by Mariam Abdulkarim (not her real name), an Arab former high school teacher, without any funding or professional...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery. Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups and activists, reported on October 30 that several women have taken their lives in Sudan's...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery. Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups and activists, reported on October 30 that several women have taken their lives in Sudan's...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:32 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IRP-LAW-2
"Due to the clandestine nature of the practice, it is challenging to determine the exact number of fishermen and fish vendors who engage in transactional sex because many cases go unreported" (par. 9).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IRP-LAW-2
"Due to the clandestine nature of the practice, it is challenging to determine the exact number of fishermen and fish vendors who engage in transactional sex because many cases go unreported" (par. 9).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:27 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Middleton and other advocates said statistics are scant, but one review showed that from 2019 through 2021, only 20 rapes were prosecuted in Mississippi. While there are problems finding statistics on reported rapes, one national report said Mississippi had 1,148 reported cases in 2020" (para 7).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Middleton and other advocates said statistics are scant, but one review showed that from 2019 through 2021, only 20 rapes were prosecuted in Mississippi. While there are problems finding statistics on reported rapes, one national report said Mississippi had 1,148 reported cases in 2020" (para 7).
Jan. 9, 2025, 3:57 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One in three women has experienced physical violence and one in five has suffered sexual violence" (para 20).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One in three women has experienced physical violence and one in five has suffered sexual violence" (para 20).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:38 a.m.
Countries: South Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Around 65% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to UNICEF, with the most common form being abuse by husbands or partners" (para 4).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Around 65% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to UNICEF, with the most common form being abuse by husbands or partners" (para 4).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:36 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"On 1 April 2017, García was followed home from a nightclub in Gualeguay, 140 miles north of Buenos Aires, raped and killed. Within a week, her decomposed and naked body was found in a field on the outskirts of the town" (para 3).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"On 1 April 2017, García was followed home from a nightclub in Gualeguay, 140 miles north of Buenos Aires, raped and killed. Within a week, her decomposed and naked body was found in a field on the outskirts of the town" (para 3).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:27 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"An Indigenous Nahua woman, Fausia, which is a pseudonym, was attacked by two men and raped by one of them in 2015 in retaliation for her work as an environmental and human rights defender" (para 7).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"An Indigenous Nahua woman, Fausia, which is a pseudonym, was attacked by two men and raped by one of them in 2015 in retaliation for her work as an environmental and human rights defender" (para 7).
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'There is so much rape,' Suad Urqud, a woman crossing from the Darfur region of Sudan with her malnourished daughter, told me. She recounted how an Arab militia called the Rapid Support Forces had publicly raped four women and girls, ages 15 to 20, in her village, to terrorize the community and force Black African ethnic groups to flee" (para 2). "If men go into the fields they are shot dead, Suad said. And if women do, they are raped. So farmers cannot farm, and then their children starve" (para 5). "Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'There is so much rape,' Suad Urqud, a woman crossing from the Darfur region of Sudan with her malnourished daughter, told me. She recounted how an Arab militia called the Rapid Support Forces had publicly raped four women and girls, ages 15 to 20, in her village, to terrorize the community and force Black African ethnic groups to flee" (para 2). "If men go into the fields they are shot dead, Suad said. And if women do, they are raped. So farmers cannot farm, and then their children starve" (para 5). "Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:21 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“With an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new actresses debuting each year, and the annual number of released videos hitting over a concerning 35,000, these numbers become even more terrifying as many women and girls are subjected to rape, blackmail, and sexual assault as part of their introduction into the industry - by up to 15 men at times” (para 3). “A 2020 government survey revealed shocking figures suggesting around a quarter of Japanese women in their teens, 20s and 30s have been solicited for supposed modelling jobs on their local streets and of those who agreed, 14 per cent were then pressured to perform sex acts” (para 4). “[T]here are...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“With an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new actresses debuting each year, and the annual number of released videos hitting over a concerning 35,000, these numbers become even more terrifying as many women and girls are subjected to rape, blackmail, and sexual assault as part of their introduction into the industry - by up to 15 men at times” (para 3). “A 2020 government survey revealed shocking figures suggesting around a quarter of Japanese women in their teens, 20s and 30s have been solicited for supposed modelling jobs on their local streets and of those who agreed, 14 per cent were then pressured to perform sex acts” (para 4). “[T]here are...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:11 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“She has tried to avoid men since high school, after doing a research project on Ilbe that brought her to web pages where men had posted nude photos of their female family members and discussed how to get away with rape” (para 23).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“She has tried to avoid men since high school, after doing a research project on Ilbe that brought her to web pages where men had posted nude photos of their female family members and discussed how to get away with rape” (para 23).
Jan. 4, 2025, 11:31 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1
"Ms. Huang emerged as an important activist in China’s burgeoning #MeToo movement in early 2018, when she created a social media platform for reporting sexual harassment. She organized and published surveys that found it to be rampant in universities and workplaces" (para 6).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1
"Ms. Huang emerged as an important activist in China’s burgeoning #MeToo movement in early 2018, when she created a social media platform for reporting sexual harassment. She organized and published surveys that found it to be rampant in universities and workplaces" (para 6).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:41 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Eight boys have been accused of gang-raping a disabled classmate in the girl's bathroom of a Spanish school. The attack on a 12-year-old girl occurred in a Peñaflor, Seville school in May, according to a police report filed by the child's family. The police document said that the girl was 'removed from the sight of students and teachers and taken to the girl's bathroom' during a break, where the gang-rape allegedly occurred. Speaking to Spanish television program 'Y Ahora Sonsoles' the girl's distressed grandmother, whose identity was not shared, detailed the horrifying incident. 'They grabbed my hands and they opened my legs and they made love to me', the girl...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Eight boys have been accused of gang-raping a disabled classmate in the girl's bathroom of a Spanish school. The attack on a 12-year-old girl occurred in a Peñaflor, Seville school in May, according to a police report filed by the child's family. The police document said that the girl was 'removed from the sight of students and teachers and taken to the girl's bathroom' during a break, where the gang-rape allegedly occurred. Speaking to Spanish television program 'Y Ahora Sonsoles' the girl's distressed grandmother, whose identity was not shared, detailed the horrifying incident. 'They grabbed my hands and they opened my legs and they made love to me', the girl...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:48 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Each time a woman returns from the forest without wood, we immediately know she's been raped,' Bukébo says, speaking through an interpreter. 'The men who rape her rob her, meaning that everything she has with her — even the wood she has with her — is taken'" (para 3). "According to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there's been a 'massive influx' of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years. When group representatives interviewed local clinicians about patients, they heard harrowing stories: Children as young as 3 years old raped; victims sometimes held days or weeks in captivity; others penetrated with sharp objects. 'The level of...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Each time a woman returns from the forest without wood, we immediately know she's been raped,' Bukébo says, speaking through an interpreter. 'The men who rape her rob her, meaning that everything she has with her — even the wood she has with her — is taken'" (para 3). "According to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there's been a 'massive influx' of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years. When group representatives interviewed local clinicians about patients, they heard harrowing stories: Children as young as 3 years old raped; victims sometimes held days or weeks in captivity; others penetrated with sharp objects. 'The level of...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student boarded a bus in New Delhi a little after 9 p.m., expecting it would take her home. Instead, she was gang-raped and assaulted so viciously with an iron rod that her intestines were damaged. She died days later as India erupted in rage. Nearly 12 years later, the nation is convulsing with anger once again — this time, over the ghastly rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, as she rested in a seminar room after a late-night shift" (para 1-2). "In 1997, India’s Supreme Court issued guidelines intended to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Those rules...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student boarded a bus in New Delhi a little after 9 p.m., expecting it would take her home. Instead, she was gang-raped and assaulted so viciously with an iron rod that her intestines were damaged. She died days later as India erupted in rage. Nearly 12 years later, the nation is convulsing with anger once again — this time, over the ghastly rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, as she rested in a seminar room after a late-night shift" (para 1-2). "In 1997, India’s Supreme Court issued guidelines intended to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Those rules...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:39 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1
"YouGov research carried out for Channel 4 which revealed 1 in 4 women in the UK have been followed at some point during a night out, while 1 in 4 have been sexually assaulted or raped on a night out" (para 19).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1
"YouGov research carried out for Channel 4 which revealed 1 in 4 women in the UK have been followed at some point during a night out, while 1 in 4 have been sexually assaulted or raped on a night out" (para 19).
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:55 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion. The data, released on Thursday in the annual report by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, showed that reported cases of rape rose by 6.5% from the previous year to a new historic high of 83,988 – or one every six minutes" (para 1-2). "Every single indicator of gender-based violence increased in 2023 compared with the previous year, including murder (0.8%), sexual harassment (48.7%) and stalking (34.5%)" (para 4). "'Since 2021, the figures for violence against women have...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion. The data, released on Thursday in the annual report by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, showed that reported cases of rape rose by 6.5% from the previous year to a new historic high of 83,988 – or one every six minutes" (para 1-2). "Every single indicator of gender-based violence increased in 2023 compared with the previous year, including murder (0.8%), sexual harassment (48.7%) and stalking (34.5%)" (para 4). "'Since 2021, the figures for violence against women have...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:44 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for a former president accused of statutory rape and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales, in office between 2006 and 2019, is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years-old. The girl's parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for unspecified 'political favours', the lawsuit claims" (para 1-3). "According to the lawsuit, the unnamed victim was a member of his political youth guard in 2015, when he is claimed to have started a sexual relationship with her. In 2016, the girl gave...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for a former president accused of statutory rape and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales, in office between 2006 and 2019, is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years-old. The girl's parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for unspecified 'political favours', the lawsuit claims" (para 1-3). "According to the lawsuit, the unnamed victim was a member of his political youth guard in 2015, when he is claimed to have started a sexual relationship with her. In 2016, the girl gave...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:41 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A 36-year-old Dalit woman has requested permission to be euthanised following claims she was brutally gang-raped by three men in India. The unnamed victim, from a village near Puranpur in the district of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, wrote to Indian President Droupadi Murmu following the alleged sex crime which took place on May 14. She claims she was attacked by a man named Mohammad Azim, 35, and two of his colleagues, who are said to have given her a drink laced with a sedative that made her unable to fight back. Azim, an electrician and repairman, was known to the victim and had allegedly used this familiarity to gain her...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A 36-year-old Dalit woman has requested permission to be euthanised following claims she was brutally gang-raped by three men in India. The unnamed victim, from a village near Puranpur in the district of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, wrote to Indian President Droupadi Murmu following the alleged sex crime which took place on May 14. She claims she was attacked by a man named Mohammad Azim, 35, and two of his colleagues, who are said to have given her a drink laced with a sedative that made her unable to fight back. Azim, an electrician and repairman, was known to the victim and had allegedly used this familiarity to gain her...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:34 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"After climbing mountains and crisscrossing rivers in their quest to reach the United States, their group was accosted by a half-dozen men in ski masks, holding long guns and issuing threats. 'Women, take off your clothes!' the assailants shouted, the mother said, before they probed each woman’s intimate parts looking for cash. Sons, brothers and husbands were forced to watch. Then the men turned to the girl, her mother said, ordering her to undress for a search, too. Assault, robbery and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap say that in the past six months they...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"After climbing mountains and crisscrossing rivers in their quest to reach the United States, their group was accosted by a half-dozen men in ski masks, holding long guns and issuing threats. 'Women, take off your clothes!' the assailants shouted, the mother said, before they probed each woman’s intimate parts looking for cash. Sons, brothers and husbands were forced to watch. Then the men turned to the girl, her mother said, ordering her to undress for a search, too. Assault, robbery and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap say that in the past six months they...more
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:57 p.m.
Countries: Haiti
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One midwife at another clinic in the southern limits of the city, who asked to remain anonymous for their safety, said most of their patients were young women who had got pregnant after being forced to sell sex for food, or were raped by gang members. 'Gangs now run more than 70% of the city and when they come into a new area they ask the most beautiful girls to be their women. Running away is not always an option,' they say. Degernier says the number of reported sexual violence cases has increased by about 50% since last year, although exact figures are hard to come by" (para 10-12).more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One midwife at another clinic in the southern limits of the city, who asked to remain anonymous for their safety, said most of their patients were young women who had got pregnant after being forced to sell sex for food, or were raped by gang members. 'Gangs now run more than 70% of the city and when they come into a new area they ask the most beautiful girls to be their women. Running away is not always an option,' they say. Degernier says the number of reported sexual violence cases has increased by about 50% since last year, although exact figures are hard to come by" (para 10-12).more
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:54 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Meanwhile, Israel is continuing to contend with the fallout of the sexual-based attacks committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7; evidence suggests women and girls were subjected to systematic rape and mutilation during the massacre. Investigations into these alleged crimes are ongoing. Israel’s top police investigations unit, Lahav 433, is reviewing more than 50,000 pieces of visual evidence and 1,500 witness testimonies" (para 13-14).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Meanwhile, Israel is continuing to contend with the fallout of the sexual-based attacks committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7; evidence suggests women and girls were subjected to systematic rape and mutilation during the massacre. Investigations into these alleged crimes are ongoing. Israel’s top police investigations unit, Lahav 433, is reviewing more than 50,000 pieces of visual evidence and 1,500 witness testimonies" (para 13-14).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more