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Successive governments have failed to provide
justice, reparation, adequate healthcare to thousands of women and girls raped during the
country's 1992-1995 war, says a new Amnesty International report.
A new Amnesty International report documents rape and other violence against Darfuri women and girls, carried out both inside and outside of refugee camps.
Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
Amnesty International today warned that proposed changes to the Constitution of the Dominican Republic will put women and girls at risk and potentially increase maternal deaths in the country. The country’s Parliament is scheduled to vote on a constitutional reform package on Thursday.
Women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the Japanese
Imperial army during the Second World War, have now been waiting 64 years for an official apology
and adequate reparations.
A year into its rule, the Maoist government has failed to live up to its commitments to improving women's human rights, including protecting women human rights defende
