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By Amy Braunschweiger

Last August, the world watched in horror as the extremist armed group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, attacked Iraq’s Yezidi community. Thousands fled without food or water into the nearby Sinjar mountains, but ISIS fighters waylaid many, executing men and abducting thousands of people, mainly women and children. Rumors of forced marriage and enslavement of Yezidi girls and women swirled, and were later confirmed as a trickle of women and girls – now numbering into the hundreds – escaped. Human Rights Watch researchers Samer Muscati andRothna Begum interviewed 20 of these women and girls and shared their findings with Amy Braunschweiger.

By Comfort Mussa, Award Winning Cameroon Journalist, Via Dignity TV 

Although advocates for womens rights in Cameroon encourage rape victims to speak out, socio economic realities on the ground still makes it difficult for victims to seek for justice.

تشعر نوال*، وهي عاملة نظافة في متجر من شرق عمان، بالندم على اليوم الذي قبلت فيه عرضاً للقيام بعمل إضافي لدى صاحب العمل الذي طلب منها أن تقوم بتنظيف منزله.

Four men have been convicted for their roles in the gang-rape and murder of a young woman in a moving bus in Delhi last year.