by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 15, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Jaipur, London- All-female police units in India are patrolling the streets in the city of Jaipur, India, carrying sticks, walkie-talkies, and cameras aiming to bring a sense of security to the north-west of India, which sees 40,000 rapes every year. This all-women...
by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Aug 2, 2017 | Middle East
Amman- The Jordanian parliament on Tuesday voted to repeal article 308 that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim, knowing that the Parliament has been rejecting to revoke it since two decades. Prime Minister Hani Mulki stressed that the...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 10, 2016 | Opinion
A young girl, members of her family, girls from her village and from Iraqi Yazidi villages were kidnapped by ISIS fighters who gang raped them. All of this was done in the name of Islam and under its banner at a time when there are still a handful of extremists among...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 6, 2016 | Middle East
Southern Sudan yesterday rejected UN accusations that its soldiers raped and killed civilians during the ethnic violence that erupted in the capital Juba and elsewhere last month. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein said on Thursday...
by Youssef Diab | Apr 21, 2016 | Middle East
Beirut-Rumored stories told about a wide-spread under network for prostitution and human trafficking in Lebanon, were nothing but a sample of the heinous scandal recently exposed on crimes committed by its members. The Lebanese judiciary authority’s decision reveals...
