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Gender Based Violence
Posted by melissa.winkler on October 14th, 2011
“It is not your fault,” says the IRC’s Amie Kandeh, consoling a 14-year-old girl named Fulamatu. It’s an important message in a country where women and girls are regularly blamed for the rapes they suffer and assailants are rarely prosecuted. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Africa, Sierra Leone | Tags: girls, Sexual Violence, women, Nicholas D. Kristof | 7 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on October 13th, 2011
Nicholas D. Kristof writes in the New York Times: "…the International Rescue Committee says that only one-half of 1 percent of the rapes it deals with in Sierra Leone lead to convictions. I soon saw the challenges first hand." more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Africa, Sierra Leone | Tags: girls, Sexual Violence, women, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times |
Posted by The.IRC on June 3rd, 2011
Working in projects on violence against women has always appealed to me, so when I received the invitation to participate in an IRC project, I was very happy. I really needed a space to think about this problem, which is present in the site, and to find ways to help women. I’m happy and proud that we women are helping each other to get out of violent situations. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Domestic Violence, Haiti | Tags: domestic violence, Sexual Violence, Haiti Earthquake, women, Haiti |
Posted by Jamie.Kelso on March 16th, 2011
Mark shares his personal commitment to changing culture when and where it is unjust and inhuman. By educating young men and empowering young girls, he is working in Karamoja, Uganda to stop a long-practiced terrible tradition of rape and helping a community to exchange a violent past for the promise and potential of a future built on equality more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Domestic Violence, Uganda | Tags: video, Africa, domestic violence, Karamoja, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, uganda, conflict, war, Wake Up Call |
Posted by The.IRC on July 29th, 2010
Heidi Lehman, the IRC's director of the gender-based violence unit, is in Haiti this month. She describes an IRC program that trains Haitian women to support victims of sexual violence in Teleco camp and other settlements where people displaced by the earthquake now live. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Haiti | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Sexual Violence, gender-based violence, displaced people | 1 Comments
Posted by Amie.Kandeh on July 20th, 2010
Female Genital Mutilation used to be an accepted ritual for women in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It’s widely known now that the procedure can adversely impact the health of women and girls. But that doesn’t mean the tradition has ended. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Africa, Sierra Leone | Tags: gender based violence, Sierra Leone | 1 Comments
Posted by Jamie.Kelso on May 18th, 2010
Before last week, I had not returned to Washington, DC since my first trip there in the 6th grade. I remember firmly declaring to my parents after a tour of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that I was going to grow up to be a secret agent. I chuckled to think of my 11-year-old self as I sped down to Washington on the train, tasked with documenting delivery of the IRC’s petition to end violence against women. more »
Posted by Amie.Kandeh on March 4th, 2009
Every year, around International Women's Day, I think about women and girls all over the world who, like me, have the right to live with dignity, in freedom, and without fear. more »
Posted in Women, Sierra Leone | Tags: refugees, aid worker blog, domestic violence, GBV, gender based violence, humanitarian, International Women's Day | 5 Comments
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