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Asia

March 26, 2020 Dispatches

South Korea Online Sexual Abuse Case Illustrates Gaps in Government Response

Erika Nguyen
Coordinator, Women's Rights Division
March 12, 2020 Dispatches

Weinstein Rape Sentence in US Boosts #MeToo Movement

Nisha Varia
Advocacy Director, Women’s Rights Division
Europe/Central Asia

March 11, 2020 News Release

Kyrgyzstan: Women’s Activists Detained

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September 6, 2019 Video

This Woman Wants to See the ex-President Who Raped Her Face Trial
August 27, 2019 Video

Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors
June 26, 2019 Video

Video: Women Accuse Gambian ex-President of Rape

Reports More Reports

February 5, 2020

Deported to Danger

United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse
June 26, 2019

Gambia: Women Accuse Ex-President of Sexual Violence

Investigate Yahya Jammeh for Rape, Sexual Assault
November 1, 2018

“You Cry at Night but Don’t Know Why”

Sexual Violence against Women in North Korea

News

March 6, 2020 News Release

Governments Should Fulfill Women’s Rights Pledges
February 18, 2020 Commentary

Sexual Violence: Uganda Police Should Support Victims, Not Blame Them

Audrey Wabwire
Senior Press Officer East Africa
February 11, 2020 Dispatches

South Asia Failing to Address Its Child Rape Problem

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
February 7, 2020 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Yemen
January 11, 2020 Commentary

UN Peacekeeping has a Sexual Abuse Problem

Skye Wheeler
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: The Hill
January 10, 2020 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women review of Pakistan
December 16, 2019 Commentary

“Crying Since Morning”: Trafficking Survivors’ Double Trauma in Nigeria

Agnes Odhiambo
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: African Arguments
December 10, 2019 News Release

Kenya: Elusive Justice for Gross Injustice, Abuse
December 4, 2019 News Release

Morocco: Landmark Proposals on Individual Freedoms
December 2, 2019 Dispatches

Woman in India Gang Raped, Murdered

Jayshree Bajoria
Senior Researcher, Asia
November 1, 2019 Commentary

The Devil Is in the Details

Jayshree Bajoria
Senior Researcher, Asia

Published In: India Today
October 11, 2019 Dispatches

#Metoo Hits Nepal’s Government

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director

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Coronavirus Is the "New Terrorism": Daily Brief

Daily Brief

Coronavirus is the "new terrorism"; Asia's overcrowded prisons at grave risk of COVID-19 outbreaks; rights risks to older people in coronavirus response; no "social distancing" possible for refugees crammed into camps in Greece; Gulf countries to put a hold on deportations; concerns over South Africa's response; Afghanistan should prosecute head of ISIS-linked group for war crimes; the UN fails to name Russia for bombings in Syria; and is Europe finally seeing some light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel?

Interactives More Interactives

October 5, 2017

They Said We Are Their Slaves

This report documents 305 cases of rape and sexual slavery by members of armed groups between early 2013 and mid-2017. The predominantly Muslim Seleka and the largely Christian and animist militia known as “anti-balaka,” two main parties to the conflict, have used sexual violence as revenge for perceived support of those on the other side of the sectarian divide.