Women Take Brunt of Human Rights Abuse: Amnesty

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Women Take Brunt of Human Rights Abuse: Amnesty International

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1377151.htm

abc.net - AFP


Women and girls faced "horrific" levels of abuse in 2004 worldwide, Amnesty International said in its annual human rights review, blaming widespread rape and violence on a mix of "indifference, apathy and impunity".

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In Darfur, where a local rebellion sparked a brutal government backlash, Khartoum-backed militias have staged mass rapes, including of schoolgirls, and "frequently abducted" local women into sexual slavery, Amnesty said.

Tens of thousands of women and girls were also subject to rape and sexual slavery in the DRC, and as in Darfur, victims were often then abandoned by their husbands and families, "condemning them and their children to extreme poverty".

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1. Check out today's Darfur: Daily News May 27, 2005

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3742377&mesg_id=3742377