1. Drug-War Assassinations
(Newsletter)

...he Ranks Investigating Reports By MWC News    Tuesday, 27 October 2009 As with suicides, the rate of sexual assaults within the US military now exceeds that of the general population. A ...

2. Rape in the Ranks
(Opinions/Daily)

As with suicides, the rate of sexual assaults within the US military now exceeds that of the general population. A Pentagon report earlier this year found one in three female service members are sexua

3. America's 'Bases of Empire'
(Opinions/Features)

... an activist fighter for women's rights, especially against the threat of US military personnel-committed rape and sexual assaults. She's also a City Council member of Okinawa's capital, Naha, and hel...

4. Close Down Guantanamo?
(Opinions/Politic)

...regnant women, the mentally ill and even children.” And the Justice Department itself conceded four years ago that sexual assaults on inmates is a "significant problem"in federal prisons. I...

5. Shocking Lancet Study
(Opinions/Daily)

8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide Ouster Those responsible included Haitian police, United Nations peacekeepers and anti-Lavalas ga

6. Journalists Barred from Guantanamo
(Opinions/Daily)

... occasions he was cut on his body and also on his genitals with a scalpel. He was also severely beaten. He endured sexual assaults. And I should say that I've interviewed two other prisoners in recent...

7. Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths
(Opinions/Daily)

...roup of students at Thomas Jefferson School of Law last October. There was an 800 number women could use to report sexual assaults. But no one had a phone, she added. And no one answered that number, ...

8. Iraqi Women Under Occupation
(Opinions/Society)

...nce under Iraq ’s Constitution. Since the beginning of the U.S. Occupation, there has been a dramatic increase in sexual assaults and violations of women’s rights by U.S. forces in Iraq . Many women ...

9. Italy passes emergency rape decree
(Archived/News/Culture)

Italy's government has rushed through a decree toughening penalties for sex offenders and permitting neighbourhood citizen patrols after a spate of high-profile rapes, allegedly by immigrants, sparked

10. Serb general pleads not guilty
(Archived/News/Global)

A former Serbian general, on trial before the UN for war crimes, has pleaded not guilty to alleged atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.