‘No Justice Under Occupation:’ Ahed Tamimi Sentenced to 8 Months Under Plea Bargain She was arrested in December after a video showing her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral. Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman were sentenced to eight months in prison and a US$1,500 fine as their legal team accepted a plea bargain with military …
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by Samer Muscati, Researcher, Women’s Rights Division JUBA, South Sudan — In the scorching heat of a refugee camp near Lake Chad, a 17-year-old girl I’ll call “Fatima” told me how her life had been shattered last August, when Boko Haram fighters came into the restaurant where she worked in northern Nigeria and abducted her …
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Yesterday May 7 the Women’s Court on war crimes against women during the war in the 1990ies formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Women have come together from all the corners of the former-Yugoslavia to participate in the Women’s Court in Sarajevo, to demand justice for the crimes committed against them during the wars and the …
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A South Korean woman who worked in Japanese military brothels during the war has called on Japan’s prime minister to apologise to her and other survivors ofwartime sexual slavery when he visits the US next week. Shinzo Abe is expected to touch on Japan’s wartime conduct when he becomes the first Japanese prime minister to …
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