Lebanon has become the latest Middle Eastern country to repeal a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims. Lebanon’s parliament has abolished a law that allowed a rapist to escape punishment [ More … ]
The majority of the assailants were soldiers, using the threat of their weapons and the power of their uniforms against the displaced women. At the beginning of the year, conditions for Somalia gradually worsened, as [ More … ]
Iraqi forces and militias deployed to fight the Islamic State group from Mosul, ISIS last stronghold in Iraq, have abused civilians according to The New Arab news website. In a team of seven foreign reporters [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch on Monday said Daesh fighters have raped and tortured not only Yazidi women but also Sunni Arab women. Daesh fighters, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]
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