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WMC Women Under Siege
June 18, 2019 | Aisling Walsh | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Maya Achi women demand justice for wartime sexualized violence in Guatemala

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.

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June 12, 2019 | Remy Carreiro | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Mass rape in Congo demands a more nuanced understanding than the cell phone in your pocket

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.

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June 05, 2019 | Tasmiha Khan | International, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
The world looks on as China resumes its persecution of Uighurs: A conversation with Mihrigul Tursun

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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