By Betsy Hoody, July 9, 2010 “Even now, I can’t find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening,” wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. “There are burned houses, but the worst is that corpses of people...
Police Apprehends Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ Activists 01.04.2010. Around 2 AM this morning the police apprehended nine Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ (YIHR) activists, who in the night between March 31st and April 1st wrote in red spray paint on the...
Say NO – UNiTE, Check Out UNIFEM’s New Global Virtual Knowledge Centre! Dear Friends, UNIFEM has launched a Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls and we wanted to let you know! The web-based knowledge centre is the first-ever global...
Known by the established term “hymen,” the vaginal corona is the subject of many myths and misunderstandings. The most important of these is the notion that a woman’s vaginal opening is covered by a membrane that ruptures on penetration. This is incorrect. There is no...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fourteen years on women raped in war continue to be denied their rights 30 September 2009 “This nation forgets everything. They forget about us victims. But I will never forget about what happened to me.” Sabiha, interviewed by Amnesty...
– It was a very happy moment. After two years of war, and a life in exile I was for the first time back in Sarajevo. For 48 hours I had a chance to see my husband Goran, my dad and some friends. I was happy and sad and scared and brave, because I had the opportunity...