Decades after Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict, 36 Maya Achi women are seeking justice against the soldiers who raped them and the officials who gave them the orders.
It's tempting for Western audiences to believe that cell phones beget rape in Congo, but the real root causes of mass sexualized violence in the country require more nuance than that.
As Congress deliberates ratifying the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019, Women Under Siege spoke with Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur refugee, about her experience at what she describes as an "ethnic cleansing camp" for Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region.
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