https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/15/sudan-fighters-rape-women-and-girls-hold-sex-slaves
Dec 16, 2024 · Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofa
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/sexual-violence
Jan 28, 2026 · In Ecuador one in four women experience sexual violence. Until April 2021, abortion after rape was criminalized unless the pregnant person had an intellectual disab
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/02/18/forced-give-their-dreams/sexual-violence-against-girls-guatemala
Feb 18, 2025 · The 85-page report, “‘Forced to Give Up on Their Dreams’: Sexual Violence against Girls in Guatemala,” documents the numerous barriers that girls who are su
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/22/iran-security-forces-rape-torture-detainees
Apr 22, 2024 · Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/13/here-rape-normal/five-point-plan-curtail-sexual-violence-somalia
Feb 13, 2014 · This 72-page report provides a roadmap for the government and its international donors to establish a comprehensive strategy to reduce rape, provide survivors with
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/15/doctors-rape-murder-in-india-sparks-protests
Aug 15, 2024 · The laws against rape and sexual abuse were strengthened after a 2012 gang rape and murder in Delhi sparked nationwide protests.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/09/india-rape-victims-face-barriers-justice
Nov 9, 2017 · (New York) – Rape survivors in India face significant barriers to obtaining justice and critical support services, Human Rights Watch said in a report released tod
https://www.hrw.org/report/2005/08/30/making-their-own-rules/police-beatings-rape-and-torture-children-papua-new-guinea
Aug 30, 2005 · In cases where beatings, rape, and humiliation of children by police do not rise to the level of torture, they may nevertheless constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrad
https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/10/05/they-said-we-are-their-slaves/sexual-violence-armed-groups-central-african
Oct 5, 2017 · This report documents 305 cases of rape and sexual slavery by members of armed groups between early 2013 and mid-2017. The predominantly Muslim Seleka and the largel
https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/26/sri-lanka-rape-tamil-detainees
Feb 26, 2013 · Most of the rape victims spoke to Human Rights Watch outside of Sri Lanka, and corroborated their accounts with medical and legal reports.