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In July this year, government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting.Reports say the...

Joseph Afandywas abducted for critising the ruling party BY CPJSouth Sudanese journalist Joseph Afandy was abducted and tortured for criticising the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement.  Colleagues found Afandy dumped...

Eastern Congo has earned the dubious title of being the rape capital of the world. It is estimated that 48 women are raped every hour – over 1,000 every day...

Thousands of women and men were sexually violated during the post-election violence. During that time, Patricia Nyaundi, currently Chief Executive Officer at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)...

By Joyce J Wangui Eight years ago, something happened that forced her to demand that her husband moves them out of Kosovo, the part of Kiambio largely inhabited by members...

Women’s bodies were turned in battle-fields in the post-2007 election violence. Six women have sued the government for failing to protect them against sexual violence and to pursue accountability for...

 Stones rain down on the iron sheet roof of Gakii’s house as boys from the neighbourhood call her names and threaten to kill her chickens.  “I am like a curse...

Cases of sexual and gender based violence, mutilation of bodies, burning of bodies, draining human blood from people who had just been killed and forcing others from one ethnic community...

The Teachers Service Commission banned 126 teachers from working in any school in Kenya after they were found guilty of having sexual relations with students and other misconduct.   High...

Kenya and South Africa are attempting to open debate on the use of prior recorded testimony, the duty to arrest and surrender a sitting Head of State. The states have...