Amnesty: Rapes in War Zones Not Punished
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Women and girls in war zones suffer rape and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment, Amnesty International said a report released Wednesday.
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A new legal opinion has concluded that some non-Iraqi prisoners are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
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Algeria's government has failed to take needed measures to protect women from rape, beatings and widespread legal and economic discrimination, Amnesty International told a U.N. panel on Monday.
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Canadian officials and police are  ignoring a spate of brutal attacks against aboriginal women, at  least 500 of whom have vanished or been murdered over the last  30 years, Amnesty International said on Monday.
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A new round of tests found no evidence that two women who accuse a former U.S. Naval Academy football player of sexual assault were given a date-rape drug, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday &#151; International Women's Day.
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The rules of war protecting civilians  and wounded combatants have been broken by both sides in the  week-long assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, the human  rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
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No great differences remain between the lengths of rape convictions of different courts of appeals, shows a recent report by the National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula). Municipal courts, however, ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The family of a 7-year-old Afghan girl raped by two men has come forward to demand justice, defying social customs that view such attacks as a stain on the victim's honor. Two months after the rape, the girl is still in pain, rarely speaks, and looks no one in the eye.
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The Bush administration has decided  that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in  Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva  Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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SEVERAL dozen white women were raped in Ivory Coast in riots that have shaken the west African state since late last week, but no foreign nationals were killed, a French military source said today.
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A number of French women living in Ivory Coast were raped during anti-French violence in France&#39;s former West African colony over the past week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said in Paris.
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Amnesty says women and girls are being targeted in wars while the authorities do little or nothing to prevent it.
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War, refugee crises and large-scale rape of women in sub-Saharan African nations have not spawned higher HIV infection rates in this region hard hit by AIDS, according to a study contradicting a common belief.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Fighters sexually assaulted nearly two-thirds of Liberia's population during more than a decade of war and have not been punished more than a year after the conflict ended, Amnesty International said today.
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ARDAMATA CAMP, Sudan  - The 25-year-old Darfuri woman was raped in front of her two young children, whose screams haunted her during an attack which she is too ashamed to tell her husband about.