US-Mexico border: Migrants are being raped as they await entry to US
LAURA GOTTESDIENER, TED HESSON, MICA ROSENBERG AND DAINA BETH SOLOMON, of Reuters, report…
Sudan’s PM Hamdok intends to resign within hours – sources
Khartoum, SudanReuters Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has told a group of national political and intellectual figures that he intends to resign in the coming hours, two sources close to Hamdok told Reuters on Tuesday. Hamdok was reinstated on 21st November following a coup a month earlier that saw the military take power and end […]
Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico were kidnapped, raped or assaulted – report
Washington DC, USReuters Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a report by a human rights group released on Tuesday. The report, by New York-based Human Rights First, documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in Mexico since […]
India’s low-caste women raped to keep them “in their place”
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Lower-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice as survivors bow to pressure to drop their cases, researchers said this week. Only 10 per cent of 40 rape cases involving Dalit women and girls in Haryana state ended with the conviction […]
Bangladesh to mull death penalty in rape law review after protests
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh’s government will consider introducing the death penalty for rape, a government minister said on Friday, following angry protests this week over an online video showing a group of men sexually assaulting a woman. The country’s law minister said his department was preparing a proposal to make urgent amendments to the […]
Dalit women: Rapes reveal double struggle of low-caste females in India
ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Dalit women face “double discrimination” because of their caste and their gender…
Bangladesh court orders government to tackle rise in rapes
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh’s government will set up a commission to investigate a sharp rise in the number of rapes, the deputy attorney general said on Monday, after the country’s top court ordered it to act. Deputy Attorney General Abdullah Al Mahmud said it was clear that the number of rapes had risen as […]