Web pages about "Stop Violence Against Women"
Rape in Burundi – demand justice now! - 21 July 2008
Rape is widespread throughout Burundi, though many cases, remain unprosecuted. Women are often too afraid to even report the crime out of fear that their families and communities will reject them. Demand justice in the case of 13 year-old Kaneza.Venezuela must implement new law on violence against women - 17 July 2008
Amnesty International urges authorities to show the political will and provide the resources needed to ensure the new law will not just exist on paper.Venezuela: Political will and resources needed to make law reality - 16 July 2008
(Caracas) In a new report published today, Amnesty International urged the Venezuelan authorities to show the political will and provide the resources needed to ensure the new law on violence against women will not just exist on paper.Venezuela: Ending domestic violence – Facts and figures - 16 July 2008
In 2005, 36,777 women reported abuse by partners or former partners to NGOs – an average of one woman every 15 minutes. See more facts and figures on Venezuelan women's daily realities.'Comfort Women': waiting for justice after 62 years - 5 July 2008
Thousands of women known as ‘comfort women’, were forced into sexual servitude by the Government of Japan for sexual servitude for the armed forces in the 1930s before and after the Second World War. These women are still waiting for justice.Women’s Rights Activists arrested in peaceful solidarity demonstrations in Iran - 16 June 2008
Nine women attempting to take part in a small, peaceful seminar to commemorate a day of solidarity with Iranian women were arrested in Tehran on Thursday.Brazil: Women's lives shattered by public security crisis in shanty-towns - 17 April 2008
In a new report published today, Amnesty International revealed the untold stories of women who are forced to live, bring up their children and fight for justice in Brazil’s lawless shanty-towns.Brazilian women's lives shattered - 17 April 2008
Women in Brazil are finding themselves left to pick up the pieces following criminal and police violence in shanty-towns.Video: Brazilian women's lives shattered - 17 April 2008
Women in Brazil are finding themselves left to pick up the pieces following criminal and police violence in shanty-towns.South Africa: Rural women the losers in HIV response - 18 March 2008
Rural women living with HIV in circumstances of poverty in South Africa face discrimination in relationships and in communities because of their gender, HIV status and economic marginalization.