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Rape and Sexual Assault

The Cost of Cooking Dinner: Rape or Assault

Erin Patrick | Posted 02.05.2013 | Impact
Read More: Girls, Food, Women, Firewood, Violence Against Women, Gender-Based Violence, Refugees, Displaced, Rape and Sexual Assault, Rape, Impact News
Erin Patrick

Cooking a meal for your family shouldn't put you at risk of rape. Yet, collecting the wood or other cooking fuel essential for their survival, crisis-affected women and girls are forced to put their safety at risk on a daily basis.

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Worldwide, It's "More Dangerous to Be a Woman Than a Soldier in Modern Wars"

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 07.10.2012 | World
Read More: Human Rights, Rape and Sexual Assault, Stop Rape in Conflict, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Rape as War Crime, Gloria Steinem, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Women's Rights, Guatemala, Global Violence Against Women, Peru, Burma, Cambodia, Global Security, Sudan, Susan Brownmiller, Nicaragua, Kenya, Rwanda, International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in ConflictBosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Video, World News
Soraya Chemaly

Rape, invisible and ubiquitous, is perceived as sexual and inevitable, and we tend to think of children and women as collaterally damaged during war. In truth, all over the world, girls and women are fully, bodily engaged in conflict.

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