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Sierra Leone: "The girls are being blamed" - IRC in the New York Times


October 9, 2011
By Kathleen Sands Adams

"The girls are being blamed. If a girl is raped and she’s above 5, then it’s the way she was dressed. But we’ve had a girl of 2-and-a-half months who was raped. Was it the way her mom put her diaper on?”

-- The International Rescue Committee's Amie Kandeh, who runs women's programs in an IRC-run rape center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, speaking with award-winning journalist Nicholas D. Kristof.  More than one-quarter of the rape victims the center treats are 11 years old or younger.

Read Kristof's stunning Sunday New York Times column for the full story: "In This Rape Center, the Patient Was 3"
 

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Who ARE these men?

Submitted by Anonymous on October 14, 2011 - 6:58pm.

Who ARE these men?

Varian Fry, the first field

Submitted by Sheila Isenberg (not verified) on October 14, 2011 - 3:10pm.

Varian Fry, the first field operator for the IRC 70 years ago when it was called the Emergency Rescue Committee, would be more than horrified at this. As am I.

AS horrible as it sounds,

Submitted by CB Diaz (not verified) on October 13, 2011 - 7:37pm.

AS horrible as it sounds, it does not surprise me. Education is what those people need.

First feed the body. Then change the minds. I was a teacher in a very poor community in Argentina, people can change. They need help, need to learn skill, not hands out.

CBD

What type of men are

Submitted by earline (not verified) on October 13, 2011 - 5:20pm.

What type of men are these???A baby? something has to be done with these men!!!!!How are these laws there?

This horrific! Words fail me!

Submitted by Rose Marie Fructuoso (not verified) on October 10, 2011 - 10:43pm.

This horrific! Words fail me!

This is horrific. Words fail

Submitted by Rose Marie Fructuoso (not verified) on October 10, 2011 - 10:41pm.

This is horrific. Words fail me!!

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