Tag: sexual violence
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Justice remains painfully scarce for Kosovo’s wartime rape survivors
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains detailed discussion of rape, sexual violence, and war OPINION In loving memory of Arzana Kraja, who helped to bring Kosovars together to support rape survivors through her conceptualisation and design of the Anemone symbol, in collaboration with Dardan Luta. In a recent panel discussing the prosecution […]
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‘Pimping’ girls: Vučić ally and MP investigated for sexual exploitation
CN: this article contains brief discussion of sexual exploitation REPORT As another scandal strikes Serbian politics, this time it is former mayor and sitting member of the National Assembly, Dragan Marković, whose name is on everyone’s lips for all the wrong reasons. The MP and city council president of Jagodina now faces a formal investigation […]
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Seeking justice for Bosnia’s women: an interview with scholar, Aida Hozić
CN: this article contains discussion of sexual violence and genocide INTERVIEW A quarter of a century after the Dayton Accords were signed, the women of Bosnia are still living with the aftermath of the terrors of war. Bosnian scholars, activists and artists continue to campaign for the experiences of Bosnian women during the war of […]
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Men, do better
OPINION CN: This article contains discussion of sexual violence and murder A week ago, few people knew who Sarah Everard was. Now, in the most tragic of circumstances, we all do. Sarah Everard disappeared on 3rd March whilst walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham at around 9:30 pm. She has not been seen […]
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‘Nationalism goes hand in hand with patriarchy’: an interview with Nela Pamuković
VIDEO Nela Pamuković is the Co-Founder of the feminist, anti-militaristic non-governmental organisation, Centar Za Žene Žrtve Rata (Centre for Women War Victims) in Zagreb. The centre was founded in 1992, in response to the increasing violence against women during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. In our interview, Nela notes with a smile that the […]
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Gender violence: Spain’s unending nightmare
OPINION The allegations of sexual assault made against a far-right member of the Spanish Parliament have shone the spotlight once more on the country’s institutionalised problem with gender violence. For decades, activists have been clamouring for an overhaul of the political and legal approach to the question of sexual consent and the plague of gender-based […]
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Former far-right Vox MP investigated for sex crime
REPORT Sexual violence strikes Spanish politics again, as former far-right Vox MP, Carlos Fernández-Roca Suárez, is investigated for a sexual offence. On 13th November 2020 Fernández-Roca announced his resignation from Spain’s Parliament using a now-deleted Twitter account, following the accusation: ‘On Wednesday, after learning of the complaint made against me, I immediately and voluntarily made myself […]
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