The military may have performed "virginity tests" on protestors, but women have been harassed for years. Eliza Griswold talks to the founders of a social networking site designed for victims. Read More »
Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein’s 1991 crackdown in Iraq’s Shia south. "My brothers were sentenced to death, and the price to stop this was to offer my body," she says. Read More »
An expectant mother's journey through the modern Moscow medical system. Read More »
Refugee women struggling to survive in the Horn of Africa face the additional threat of sexual violence. Read More »
Swat in north-west Pakistan is still recovering from a period of militancy several years ago. Men and women deemed un-Islamic were killed by the Taliban and their bodies dumped on the street. Hundreds of girls' schools were destroyed before the army ousted the militants in 2009. A local school girl and Swat's first woman to train as a lawyer told Nosheen Abbas of the BBC how life is changing Read More »
Gaddafi's bodyguards say they were blackmailed into joining his forces, then raped. Read More »
The talk-show host has rattled religious conservatives, the state-owned media and now the army, too. Ursula Lindsey interviews Buthayna Kamel, Cairo’s most outspoken woman. Read More »
At an inspiring breakfast, Sheryl Sandberg dished on how social media is revolutionizing women's lives. Read More »
A high court set free several of the men accused of the shocking gang-rape of Mukhtar Mai. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on why the activist for women's rights now fears for her life. Read More »
