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The Every Day "Jaycee's"

Reader diary posted by RHRefugee, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.

September 9, 2009 - 12:58pm

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Eighteen years ago, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped and made into a slave, bearing two children after being raped by her captor. Americans are outraged, and rightly so. Her story is horrifying. While this Lake Tahoe headline hit particularly close to home, most of us are perhaps unaware that kidnappings and sexual slavery occur every day in war torn areas.


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Please do not forget us. Again. Like You Did Last Time.

Reader diary posted by fingerlakeswanderer, SUNY Cortland

July 24, 2009 - 8:33am

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In our determination to wipe out terrorist cells in Afghanistan, can we please make sure we do not destroy the lives of the Afghani women?


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Mother's of a Different Reality

Reader diary posted by RHRefugee, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.

May 11, 2009 - 12:44pm

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31 people have died from swine flu-multiply that
by 17,290 and you come close to the 536,000 pregnant women who die every year
from largely preventable causes.



It is not surprising that the countries with the
highest maternal mortality are war-torn. 
Perhaps best said by a woman in Eastern Congo,
"We are victims of war.  We don't take up
arms, but we, the women suffer the most."


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For Iraqi Women, Human Rights Abuses Continue

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

February 26, 2009 - 2:38pm

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Iraq is a disaster and every day more details surface to show us just how completely we, as a country, destroyed millions of lives.


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UN to Discuss Rape as a Weapon of War

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

June 18, 2008 - 3:58pm

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This Thursday the UN will discuss one of the world's most common, and most ignored, forms of terrorism: mass rape.

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When Bodies Become War Zones

By Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check, Caribbean

May 6, 2008 - 5:30am

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Gender activists in Jamaica have noted the persistence of strong links between community-based violence and rape.


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