Women Under Siege

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WMC's Women Under Siege is a Women's Media Center journalism project that investigates how r**e and other forms of s*xualized violence are used as tools in genocide and conflict. WMC’s Women Under Siege is a journalism project that investigates how r**e and other forms of s*xualized violence are used as tools in genocide and conflict throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. Originated by Glo

ria Steinem, it builds on the lessons revealed in the anthology S*xual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust by Sonja Hedgepeth and Rochelle Saidel, and also in At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, R**e and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire. In the belief that understanding what happened then might have helped us prevent or prepare for the mass s*xual assaults of other conflicts, from Bosnia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this Women’s Media Center project is exploring this linkage to heighten public consciousness of causes and preventions. WMC’s Women Under Siege project is funded by contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations. We are not funded by the U.S. or any other government.

02/24/2020
"Here, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, you have us, and we, like you, are women who struggle."
02/11/2020

"Here, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, you have us, and we, like you, are women who struggle."

In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the glo...

01/31/2020

Native women, children, and even babies are being trafficked in the s*x trade on freighters crossing the Canada-US border on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Duluth, Minnesota.

“Last year, 5,590 Indigenous women were reported missing to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, but advocates s...
01/23/2020

“Last year, 5,590 Indigenous women were reported missing to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, but advocates say the staggeringly high rates of violence suffered by Indigenous people is still not fully reflected in official accounting.”

BIG HORN COUNTY, Mont. -- Jackie Big Hair slept in her car again, waking every few hours to fire up the engine and gaze at the frozen highway rest stop where her 16-year-old daughter had been reported missing."I just have to be here," Big Hair, 50, said, watching semis lumber across the pl...

There are no words. No justice, either.
12/21/2019

There are no words. No justice, either.

Matt Bevin under avalanche of criticism after pardoning 428 people in final days of term including two convicted child ra**sts

12/21/2019

Notes from strategy session for raid on Wet’suwet’en nation’s ancestral lands show commanders argued for ‘lethal overwatch’

12/17/2019

The changes apply to cases of clergy committing violence or s*xual assaults against anyone under their authority, as well as minors. The pope also changed rules about child po*******hy.

12/13/2019

Leader’s silence ‘says far more than your words’, lawyer says during genocide hearing

NOPE.
12/11/2019

NOPE.

A proposed settlement would end nearly every lawsuit filed by the Hollywood producer’s alleged victims, without his having to admit wrongdoing or pay anything to the women.

12/10/2019

The de facto leader of Myanmar will testify in front of the International Criminal Court to answer charges that her country carried out genocide against the Muslim minority group.

12/09/2019

Peace prize winner will lead her country’s defence against claims at court in Netherlands

12/08/2019

Burmese women are critical to understanding a country whose people have endured systematic violence and repression for far too long. They can’t be forgotten.

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