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Latest items for GEW-PRACTICE-3

Feb. 20, 2024, 6:27 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"[There is a] lack of investigations, prosecutions and sanctions imposed on the perpetrators, including those with command responsibility" (3). "[E]fforts to ensure the early identification of women and girls exploited by armed groups [are not intensified nor are these females] provide[d] with rehabilitation and reintegration services" (9). By not intensifying perpetrator punishment and victim services, the state is indirectly encouraging the exploitation of females by armed groups (MV-coder comment).
Feb. 5, 2024, 1:29 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The verdict, which is subject to appeal, comes on the heels of other successes for the SCC and Central African authorities, including the arrest of two former Central African Armed Forces members and one ex-Séléka militia general on charges of crimes against humanity. The achievements of the hybrid court model should signal that atrocities will not be tolerated" (para 2). "In convicting one perpetrator based on his responsibility for rapes committed by his subordinates, the Court concluded that the rapes in this case constituted crimes against humanity and war crimes. This holding brings vital recognition to the women who suffered these horrendous crimes, some of whom were minors at the...more
Nov. 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
Countries: Haiti
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Compounding that is severe underreporting, making it difficult for any authority to grasp the full extent of the damage. Women fear gangs will seek revenge on them and trust Haitian police just about as much" (para 16). By participating in the weaponization of women's bodies, the police and by extention the government is encouraging further perpetration of these crimes (MCP - CODER COMMENT). The country’s current government, which many view as illegitimate, declined to comment on what it is doing to address the issue (para 17).
Aug. 25, 2023, 3:23 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The latest controversy to swirl around the Chinese telecoms company Huawei has shone a spotlight on the murky world of Chinese espionage, agent-recruitment and an ambitious programme of extending its influence across the globe" (para 1). "Recruitment methods can, according to people familiar with them, take on a far more sinister form. This can include... honeytraps set for unwary western businessmen" (para 11). "This usually entails a 'chance' encounter with an attractive woman which is then covertly recorded and used as "kompromat" - compromising material to be used as a lever" (para 12).
Feb. 13, 2023, 10:57 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Bahiss said, the fight over girls education is shorthand for a broader tussle between the Taliban's hardliners and – relative – moderates for power within the movement. 'This became a battleground,' he says (Para.23). CC(Bahiss, an analyst for the International Crisis Group).
Feb. 5, 2023, 7:33 p.m.
Countries: Ukraine
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Olha, the Kherson woman, said that over 14 days in detention this fall she was threatened with rape and was punched and kicked in the head and chest, breaking a rib. Russians put clamps on her legs, arms and earlobes to send an electric current through her body, she said, and doused her in water to worsen the shocks. Her interrogators knew she worked with volunteers bringing aid from Ukrainian-held territory to civilians in Kherson. They demanded she film a propaganda video and distribute supplies in the name of United Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin’s governing political party." (para 36-37). "The similarity of the evidence and accounts across cities, describing...more
Feb. 5, 2023, 7:33 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Olha, the Kherson woman, said that over 14 days in detention this fall she was threatened with rape and was punched and kicked in the head and chest, breaking a rib. Russians put clamps on her legs, arms and earlobes to send an electric current through her body, she said, and doused her in water to worsen the shocks. Her interrogators knew she worked with volunteers bringing aid from Ukrainian-held territory to civilians in Kherson. They demanded she film a propaganda video and distribute supplies in the name of United Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin’s governing political party." (para 36-37). "The similarity of the evidence and accounts across cities, describing...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Provide for the offences of terrorism and proliferation and other offences connected or associated with terrorist or proliferation activities; to provide for measures to prevent and combat terrorist and proliferation activities. In addition, it provides for measures to give effect to the international conventions, Security Council Resolutions, instruments and best practices concerning measures to combat terrorist and proliferation activities to provide and to combat the funding of terrorist and proliferation activities. This Act protects men and women from being used as participants to carry out terrorist attacks in the country." (5).
Jan. 6, 2022, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Somalia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The government does not encourage the use of women and girls as instruments of the state" (1).
July 22, 2021, 4:40 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Rape and other forms of sexual violence constitute war crimes in the context of the conflict, as defined under the Rome Statute" (Para 15).
June 29, 2021, 11:26 a.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"UNICEF and MONUSCO attributed some abuses of children, including mutilation of children and use of children in combat in the Kasais, to harmful traditional and religious practices. The United Nations reported that Kamuina Nsapu militias often put children, particularly young girls, on the front lines of battle, believing they have powers that could protect them as well as other fighters. For example, it reported Kamuina Nsapu militias often believed young girls could trap bullets fired at them and fling them back at attackers. The Kamuina Nsapu also reportedly slashed children’s stomachs as part of an initiation ritual to see if they would survive and how the wound would heal" (p...more
June 24, 2021, 5:40 p.m.
Countries: Eritrea
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3, GEW-DATA-1

"But the attack, which also dragging in soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea, has unleashed a wave of ethnic violence that has seen civilians indiscriminately killed, with hundreds of thousands displaced and left without food...'Of the people who traveled with them, some were reportedly killed particularly youngsters, people were reportedly beaten, women were subject to rape, some were pregnant and delivered on the way losing their babies'...This week, Abiy acknowledged for the first time that atrocities such as rape had been committed and said any soldiers committing crimes would be punished. But some of the worst atrocities have been blamed on soldiers from Eritrea, meaning Abiy's ability to act against them is...more
June 24, 2021, 5:39 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"But the attack, which also dragging in soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea, has unleashed a wave of ethnic violence that has seen civilians indiscriminately killed, with hundreds of thousands displaced and left without food...'Of the people who traveled with them, some were reportedly killed particularly youngsters, people were reportedly beaten, women were subject to rape, some were pregnant and delivered on the way losing their babies'...This week, Abiy acknowledged for the first time that atrocities such as rape had been committed and said any soldiers committing crimes would be punished. But some of the worst atrocities have been blamed on soldiers from Eritrea, meaning Abiy's ability to act against them is...more
Jan. 18, 2021, 2:43 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The 15-year-old girl, crying and terrified, refused to release her grip on her sister’s hand. Days earlier, Islamic State fighters had torn the girls from their family, and now were trying to split them up and distribute them as spoils of war. The jihadist who had selected the 15-year-old as his prize pressed a pistol to her head, promising to pull the trigger. But it was only when the man put a knife to her 19-year-old sister’s neck that she finally relented, taking her next step in a dark odyssey of abduction and abuse at the hands of the Islamic State. The sisters were among several thousand girls and young...more
Dec. 24, 2020, 9:52 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is fanning those flames by rejecting calls for unity and resurrecting the militias that only a few years ago turned public hospitals into torture chambers and raped women who stepped out of line" (para 8).
Dec. 23, 2020, 9:43 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"ISIS has now taken over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit and has reportedly ordered the families to hand over their daughters to the militants. Mirror reported that in the captured towns, the militants have been distributing leaflets which state: 'Women virgin or not must join jihad and cleanse themselves by sleeping with militants'" (para 3).
Dec. 23, 2020, 2:47 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Susan Rice, then US Ambassador to the UN, also made an unsubstantiated allegation that Qadhafi was giving his troops Viagra to encourage mass rape" (3). "While there is growing evidence that Qadhafi used sexual exploitation and abuse as physical and psychological weapons against his detractors and their families, or as a reward for his supporters, it was not a new phenomenon of the revolution" (4). "Of critical importance, internationals discovered that even though Qadhafi had used sexual violence as a strategic tactic of terror for decades, the International Commission of Inquiry (ICC) “did not find documented evidence to substantiate claims of widespread sexual violence... such as to amount to crimes...more
Sept. 28, 2020, 3:33 p.m.
Countries: Zimbabwe
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"During nationwide protests in mid-January, following the president's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase, security forces responded with lethal force, killing at least 17 people, raping at least 17 women, shooting and injuring 81 people, and arresting over 1,000 suspected protestors during door-to-door raids. In the months that followed,d several civil society activists, political opposition leaders, and other critics of the government were arbitrarily arrested, abducted, beaten or tortured. Little to no efforts were made to bring those responsible for the abuses to justice" (para 1). "Security forces appeared to take advantage of the general unrest during the protests and crackdown to commit rape and other serious abuses" (para...more
Sept. 11, 2020, 8:52 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Migrants and asylum seekers who are captured at sea and returned to Libyan territory are placed in detention under the GNA Interior Ministry, where many suffer inhumane conditions including beatings, sexual violence, extortion, forced labor, and inadequate medical treatment, food and water. The Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), under the GNA Interior Ministry, manages the formal migrant detention centers, while smugglers and traffickers run informal ones" (para 34).
Aug. 26, 2020, 1:29 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3, GEW-DATA-1

“For the last 16 years we’ve been living in a state of war in the east of our country. It’s a war of aggression with neighbouring countries. There are national armed groups and there are foreign groups who pillage our region…It’s women’s bodies who are used as battlefields in this war...Thousands of women are raped with atrocious violence, children are recruited and young women are detained as sexual slaves by the armed groups” (para 3-5).
April 1, 2020, 6:28 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Nonstate militant groups kidnapped boys and girls and used fraudulent promises to coerce parents into giving away children as young as 12 to spy, fight, or die as suicide bombers. The militants sometimes offered parents money, often sexually and physically abused the children, and used psychological coercion to convince the children the acts they committed were justified" (21).
Dec. 16, 2019, 9:56 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Married Chinese Muslim women are regularly forced to share the same bed as male officials sent by government to monitor them when their husbands are being indoctrinated in internment camps, it has been revealed" (para 1). "Uighur wives from China's Xinjiang Province have been required to 'invite' inspectors into their homes under a mandatory surveillance programme when their spouses are under detention, according to reports" (para 2). "With their husbands away from home, those Muslim women must provide information about their lives and political views to the male inspectors, who call themselves their 'relatives', it is reported" (para 3). "The news came as Beijing is reportedly encouraging Han men to...more
Aug. 15, 2019, 6:56 a.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"In 2016, abductions for recruitment by the Lord’s Resistance Army increased slightly, and 16 Burundian child soldiers and one Rwandan child soldier, some recruited from refugee camps, were stopped by government officials while reportedly transiting through the DRC to fight in armed groups in Burundi. Child soldiers separated from armed groups and reintegrated into society remain vulnerable to rerecruitment, as adequate rehabilitation services did not exist for children suffering severe psychological trauma, stigmatization may interfere with community reintegration. There were no confirmed cases of child soldier recruitment by the FARDC for the fourth consecutive year. An international organization verified the FARDC used children in support roles, including for sexual slavery...more
Aug. 15, 2019, 6:54 a.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3, EWCMS-PRACTICE-1

"In February 2018, an international organization estimated that there were more than 150 different armed groups in the DRC. In 2018, several armed groups continued to abduct and forcibly recruit Congolese men, women, and children as combatants and in support roles, such as guards, porters, cleaners, cooks, messengers, spies, and tax collectors at mining sites; women and girls were forced to marry or serve as sex slaves for members of some armed groups" (160).
Aug. 15, 2019, 6:44 a.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"During the reporting period, there were two cases, verified by an international organization, of children used—but not recruited—in support roles by the FARDC, one for sex slavery and domestic servitude and the other for forced labor; the government redeployed one commander allegedly responsible for these crimes to a different regiment and did not report holding him or other allegedly complicit officials accountable" (159).
July 21, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Countries: Yemen
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"Women in conflict-affected areas are often unable to access the humanitarian aid of which almost 19 million people in Yemen are in need. They are stifled by social restrictions on their freedom of movement, fear of abuse at militia-held checkpoints and the rising costs of transportation, as many roads are closed or have been destroyed because of the ongoing fighting" (para 8).
July 21, 2019, 5:11 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The narrative of throwing out intruders to save the Hindu rashtra is integral to the ‘education’ being imparted to the young tribal girls spirited away from home. Even when they themselves, ironically, bec­ome outsiders in the process. The Bodo and adivasis girls, taken away from their homes, have now emb­raced patriarchal ideas of honour, sati and jauhar instead of turning to their own brave tribal women warriors like Tengfakhri, who fought criminals in the British era instead of committing suicide like the Rani of Chhota Kashi. The ‘bravery’ being instilled in these girls is limited to the Sangh’s Hindu state-building efforts as wives, mothers, recruiters and sometimes propagandists. They return...more
June 28, 2019, 8:55 a.m.
Countries: South Sudan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The practice of girl compensation--compensating the family of a crime victim with a girl from the perpetrator’s family--occurred. Victims were generally between ages 11 and 15, did not attend school, and often were physically and sexually abused and used as servants by their captors. Local officials complained that the absence of security and rule of law in many areas impeded efforts to curb the practice" (Pg 36).
June 14, 2019, 4:05 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"The government claimed, based on statements of several women formerly associated with Maoist groups, that sexual violence, including rape and other forms of abuse, was a practice in some Maoist camps" (16).
May 7, 2019, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3

"On May 7, Israeli border police shot and killed a 16- year-old Palestinian, Fatimah Hjeiji, after she brandished a knife at police officers near the Old City’s Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. B’Tselem and witnesses quoted in media reports said that Hjeiji did not pose a danger given that she stopped several yards away from the officers, who were behind a metal barrier and wearing protective gear. According to Israeli police, Hjeiji had written a letter bidding farewell to her family, indicating she intended to be killed by police" (58).