https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/21/warcrimes.balkans

 

Kano State Shari’a Penal Code Law 2000. Ramadhan, 1421; November, 2000

www.streetlights.tripod.com/queens/kitty-genovese.html Looking Back 40 Years Later at the Kitty Genovese Murder
 

www.trutv.com/.../crime/serial_killers/predators/kitty_genovese/1.html A Cry in the Night: The Kitty Genovese Murder
 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese: Wikipedia

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children Military Use of Children: Wikipedia

 

www.globalissues.org/article/82/children-conflicts-and-the-military Children Conflicts and the Military: Global Issues
 

www.child-soldiers.org Child Soldiers International

 

www.metro.co.uk/...children-soldiers-forced-to-fight-in-somalia-war-amnesty-report-claims Children soldiers forced to fight in Somalia war, Amnesty report claims
 

www.lubangatrial.org/.../25/commanders-ordered-child-soldiers-to-rape Commanders Ordered Child Soldiers to Rape: Thomas Lubanga Trial
 

www.warchild.org War Child International

www.ptsd.va.gov/public/pages/child-sexual-abuse.asp Child Sexual Abuse: National Center for PTSD
 

www.womensweb.ca/violence/incest/signs.php Women’s Web: Signs of Child Sexual Abuse/Incest
 

www.protectkids.com/abuse/abusesigns.htm Signs of Sexual Abuse: Protect Kids.com
 

www.feminist.com/resources/ourbodies/viol_incest.html Feminist.com: Incest & Sexual Abuse of Children
 

www.pandys.org/articles/siblingsexualabuse.html Sibling Sexual Abuse & Incest during Childhood: Pandora's Project
 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse Child Sexual Abuse: Wikipedia
 

www.visionpakistan.org/Assets/reports/chilldabuse.htm Child Abuse and Child Molestation: Vision Pakistan

Protection Advocacy

www.savethechildren.org Save the Children

 

www.crin.org Child Rights International

 

www.helpfororphans.org Help for Orphans International
 

www.nationallawcenter.org The National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC)
 

www.enough.org Enough is Enough: Protecting our Children Online
 

www.asacp.org/index.php Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (This Site Helps in the

Battle against Child Porn)
 

www.ecpat.org.uk End Child Prostitution and Child Pornography ECPAT UK
 

www.cpiu.us Counter Pedophilia Investigation Unit
 

www.endchildlabor.org International Initiative to End Child Labour
 

www.stopchildslavery.com Stop Child Slavery
 

www.oacas.org Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS)
 

www.protectchildren.ca Canadian Centre for Child Protection: Home
 

www.safechild.org: Coalition for Children

www.sickkids.ca/scan SCAN (Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect

 

www.missingkids.com National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

 

www.icmec.org International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

 

www.guardian.co.uk/.../2011/apr/07/women-addicted-internet-pornography Why More and More Women are Using Pornography
 

www.washingtontimes.com/.../more-women-lured-to-pornography-addiction More Women Lured to Pornography Addiction
 

www.netspeed.com.au/ttguy/refs2.htm Studies on the Effects of Pornography: Netspeed
 

www.karen-stephenson.suite101.com/female-porn-addiction-a90676 Female Porn Addiction: One in Three Visitors to Adult Websites are Women

 

www.angelfire.com/art/antipornography/facts.html How is Porn Harmful

 

www.csun.edu/~psy453/porno_y.htm Harms of Pornography

 

www.levelbest.com/design/sites/enough/pornisharmful.htm Fact: Pornography is Harmful

 

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/.../US-porn-industry-hit-by-Aids-fears-as-16-cases-of-HIV-revealed.html UP Porn Industry Hit by AIDS Fears as 16 Cases of HIV Revealed

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_in_the_pornographic_film_industry AIDS in the Pornographic Film Industry: Wikipedia

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_the_American_Civil_War Sex in the American Civil War: Wikipedia

 

www.eric-niderost.suite101.com/sex-in-the-civil-war-a139268 Sex in the Civil War: Prostitution, Pornography, and Venereal Disease Common: Suite 101

 

www.ameliacotter.suite101.com/...venereal-disease-in-the-civil-war-a228450 Prostitution and Venereal Disease in the Civil War: Suite 101

 

www.americancivilwar.asn.au/meet/2005_08_mtg_sex_and_the_civil_war.pdf Sex and the Civil War: A Medical Perspective

 

www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-famous-serial-killers.html List of Famous Serial Killers

www.abc15.com/.../why-are-women-targeted-by-serial-killers Why are Women Targeted by Serial Killers
www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0126.htm The Criminal Behaviour of the Serial Rapist

www.ehow.com/how_5206812_out-being-stalked-can-do.html How to Find out if You’re Being Stalked: and What You Can Do

 

www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/12/11/powerless-in-prison-sexual-abuse-agains-incarcerated-women Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse against Incarcerated Women

 

www.womensenews.org/story/rape/030317/female-prisoners-sue-state-guards-sex-abuse Female Prisoners Sue State for Guards' Sex Abuse

 

www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Calgary+woman+beaten+Mexico Canadian Woman Found Beaten in Mexico Resort

 

www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2009/09/18/montreal-woman-dead-mexico.html Man in Custody after Canadian Killed in Mexico

 

www.sooperarticles.com/travel-articles/travel-tipsarticles/what-can-women-do-avoid-sexual-harassment-when-theytravel-vacation-12938.html. What Can Women Do to Avoid Sexual Harassment When They Travel on Vacation?

www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Zeese14.htm The Rape, Assault and Harassment of Women in the Military

 

www.cyberspacei.com/jesusi/focus/co/cows/afsc/youthmill/html/news/nov00/sexharass_prt.htm Y & M: Sexual Harassment of Women in the Military

 

www.bad.eserver.org/issues/1999/42/goodell.html Bad Subjects: In the Navy: Gender, Class and Sexual Harassment

 

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/.../sexual-harassment-on-police-force Sexual Harassment on Police Force: Canadian Encyclopaedia

 

www.womensstudies.homestead.com/rape.html Every 60 Seconds a Woman is Raped in the United States

 

www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/10/11/the-rape-of-black-women-by-white-men-systemic-racism-again The Rape of Black Women by White Men: Systemic Racism Again: Racism Review

 

www.rightdiagnosis.com/r/rape_trauma_syndrome/symptoms.htm Symptoms of Rape Trauma Syndrome: Right Diagnosis

 

www.articlesbase.com/.../how-to-recover-from-rape-3102325.html Article Base: How to Recover from Rape

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape Marital Rape: Wikipedia

 

www.fatheringmag.com Female Sex Offenders: Women Who Rape

 

Female_Sexual_Predators_awareness.aspx Female Sex Offenders: Female Sexual Predators

 

www.nsvrc.org/projects/sart National Sexual Violence Resource Center: Sexual Assault Response Teams
 

www.girlshealth.gov/safety/saferelationships/daterape.cfm Girls Health: What is Rape and Date Rape?

www.womensweb.ca/violence/rape/surviving.php Women's Web: Surviving Rape and Date Rape
 

www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Being-Raped How to Avoid Being Raped: WikiHow
 

www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Raped-in-College How to Avoid Getting Raped in College: WikiHow
 

www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military Rape in the U.S. Military: America’s Dirty Little Secret: The Guardian

www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/10/03/rape-iraqi-women-us-forces-weapon-war-photos-and data emerge Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data: Asian Tribune

www.democracynow.org/2005/3/29/u_s_soldiers_accused_of_raping U.S. Soldiers Accused of Raping Iraqi Women Escape Prosecution

www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/12/11/powerless-in-prison-sexual-abuse-agains-incarcerated-women Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse against Incarcerated Women
 

www.psychrapereporter.wordpress.com/category/psychiatric-rape Psychiatric Rape: Psychiatric &Mental Health Rape Reporter

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/...raped-at-mental-hospital-1500452.html ‘Patients Raped’ at Mental
Hospital

www.nwcn.com/home/Women-say-they-were-raped...psychiatric-hospital-70682997.html Women Say they were Raped in State Psychiatric Hospital

www.archive.suite101.com/article.cfm/mental_health_advocacy/35970 Why Abuse Happens in Mental Institutions and How to Protect Patient Safety

www.theage.com.au/news/national/women-in-mental...abuse/2008/05/11/1210444243808.html Women in mental wards face grave risk of abuse

www.foxnews.com/.../09/6-ways-sexual-harassment-damages-womens-health 6 Ways Sexual Harassment Damages Women’s Health

 

www.livescience.com/780-women-drunk-high-addicted-easier-men.html Women Get Drunk, High & Addicted Easier than Men

www.newslinemagazine.com/2011/02/women-of-substance-drug-addiction Women of “Substance”: Drug Addiction in Pakistan

 

www.alcoholism.about.com/od/coke/a/blnida040721.htm Cocaine Affects Women’s Brain Differently

 

www.historiann.com/2008/04/07/rape-still-a-powerful-weapon-of-war Rape Still a Powerful Weapon of War: Historian

 

www.asafeworldforwomen.org/womens-rights/wr-americas/usa-womens-rights/1029-circle-of-violence-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-Indian--women.html Circle of Violence: Rape and Sexual Assault of Indian Women

 

www.dailymail.co.uk/.../article-1254521/German-victim-break-silence-Red-Army-rapists-65-years.html German Victim is First to Break Silence on Red Army Rapists after 65 Years

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany Rape During the Occupation of Germany: Wikipedia

 

www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11 They Raped Every German Female from Eight to 80

 

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/two-million-raped-by-the-red-army two-million-german-women-speak-out--1669074.html Rape by the Red Army: Two Million German Women Speak Out: The Independent

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Red-Army-troops-raped-even-Russian-women-as-they-freed-them-fromcamps. html Red Army Troops Raped Even Russian Women as they Freed them from Camps: The Telegraph

 

www.gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/women.php Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom: Women in the Gulags

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_Bosnian_War Rape in the Bosnian War: Wikipedia

 

www.srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-rape-element-of-genocide-in-bosnia.html Mass Rape, an Element of Genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda and Sudan

 

www.bosniangenocide.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/testimonies-mass-rape-of-bosnian-muslim-women Testimonies: Mass Rape of Bosnian Muslim Women

 

www.thebosnianwarfactstimelinehistorygenocidecriminals.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/mass-rape- of bosnian-muslim-women Mass Rape of Bosnian Muslim Women

 

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/mar/21/warcrimes.balkans Serbs Enslaved Muslim Women at Rape Camps: The Guardian

 

www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/14/balkans6 Serbs Have Rape Camp Says Cook: The Guardian

 

www.armenianweekly.com/2011/12/07/devilish-marks ‘Devilish Marks’ and Rape in the Time of Genocide: The Armenian Weekly

 

www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3426273.stm Congo Rape Victims Seek Solice

 

www.worldpress.org/africa/1561.cfm Congo-Rape-Women-Africa: Worldpress

 

www.cnn.com/2011/11/24/world/africa/democratic-congo-rape/index.html Why Eastern DR Congo is Rape Capital of the World

 

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/12/congo.international Hundreds of Thousands of Women Raped for being on the Wrong Side

 

www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3791713.stm Sudanese Tell of Mass Rape:

 

www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3900777.stm Testimonies of Rape in Sudan: BBC

 

www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1909220.stm Rape: Silent War on SA Women

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women Comfort Women: Wikipedia

 

www.cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/Archive/FelicidadDeLosReyes.htm Japanese Comfort Women: One Woman’s Story

 

www.sacw.net/article581.html Tragic silence over Bangladesh’s babies of war of 1971: South Asia Citizens Web

 

www.soc.culture.indian/browse_thread/thread/74f6e4127c6cff6d/7e726df848cdc773?Ink=raot&hl=en 1971 Gang Rapes by Pakistan Army in Bangladesh

 

www.kashmirnewz.com/a0027.html Wailing Woes of Kashmiri Women

 

www.womennewsnetwork.net/2011/07/21/kashmir-obstacles-women-rape Kashmir: Obstacles Continue for Women Reporting Rape

 

www.culturesocietypraxis.org/index.php/csp/article/viewFile/46/43 Rape and Sexual Assault in Chechnya

 

www.hrw.org/news/2000/01/19/rape-allegations-surface-chechnya Rape Allegations Surface in Chechnya

 

www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3184161.stm Rape and Death in Chechnya

 

www.news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100701140932210 Kurdish Women are Fighting Back against Rape in Turkey

 

www.hevallo.blogspot.com/2008/09/rape-and-torture-of-kurdish-women-by.html Hevalo: Turkey and the Kurdish Question: The Rape and Torture of Kurdish Women by Turkish Security Forces

 

www.opednews.com/articles/Hundreds-of-Women-Report-R-by-Mac-McKinney-110529-177.html Hundreds of Women Report Rapes by Gaddafi Forces

 

www.clearharmony.net/articles/200512/30260.html How the Chinese Party Incites Police to Rape Innocent Mothers

www.greece.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=454&Itemid=409 Rape of Greek Cypriot Women

 

www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/205521.pdf Sexual Assault on Campus: What Colleges and Universities are doing about it

 

www.womensissues.about.com/od/rapesexualassault/a/rapeoncampus_2.htm Rape on Campus: Alcohol, Date Rape Drugs Exacerbate Rape on Campus

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act Clery Act: Wikipedia

 

www.securityoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=271&Itemid=60Complying with the Jeanne Clery Act

 

www.dawn.thot.net/violence_wwd.html Family Violence against Women with Disabilities (DAWN Canada)

 

www.independentliving.org/docs1/iglesiasetal1998.html Violence and Disabled Women: Independent Living Institute

 

www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/article2810812.ece Crime against Mentally Ill Women on the Rise

 

www.losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/01/06/police-hunt-at-least-8-men-for-raping-severely-disabled-women Police Hunt for at Least 8 Men for Raping Severely Disabled Women

 

www.guardian.co.tt/.../2011/10/30/morvant-teen-held-rape-disabled-girl Morvant Teen Held for Rape of Disabled Girl: The Trinidad Guardian

 

www.womenshealth.about.com/lw/Health-Medicine/Womens-Health/After-Rape-Getting-a-Medicalnbsp-Exam-is-Essential.htm Rape: What to do if You`ve Been Raped

 

www.ehow.com/how_4577668_self-defense-class-women.htm How to Find a Self-Defence Class for Women: eHow.com

 

www.ehow.com/how_4577668_self-defense-class-women.htm Safety for Women: Self Defence Tips & Tricks for Women

www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Raped-in-College How to Avoid Getting Raped in College: WikiHow

www.womensstudies.homestead.com/rape.html Every 60 Seconds a Woman is Raped in the United States

 

www.angelfire.com/in/cite/essay1.html Women Who Kill their Abusers

 

www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=8&compID=95 Violence and Abuse: Women-Woman Rape: Our Bodies Our Selves

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. She was born on 15 July 1858 in Moss Side, Manchester, United Kingdom. She died on 14 June 1928 in Hampstead, United Kingdom. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst)

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He was born on 3 January 106 BC in Arpino, Italy. Cicero was assassinated on 7 December 43 BC in Formia, Italy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero)

Joy Ezeilo is a Nigerian lawyer, feminist, scholar, teacher and activist. She is the Executive Director of her initiative, Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL), a non-governmental organization that champions the rights of women, children and widows with base in Enugu State, Nigeria. She also heads TAMAR SARC, an acronym of Sexual Assault Referral Centre, a joint initiative of WACOL in partnership with the government of Enugu State, Nigeria. This initiative is represented by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development, and supported by the Justice for All (J4A) programme of the Department for International Development (DFID). In June 2008, she was appointed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children (2008-2011) and took up office in August 2008.

Anne (Annelies Marie) Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)

Joe (Josephine Obiajulu) Okei-Odumakin is a Nigerian women's rights activist and president of the rights group, Women Arise for Change Initiative and the Campaign for Democracy. Born in Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria on 4 July 1966, she has frequently been arrested for her activism. Detained 17 times during the military rule of Ibrahim Babangida, she was involved with over 2,000 cases where a woman's rights had been disregarded. The cases included extrajudicial killings of women or their husbands by the police, and others where the rights of their children were also ignored by the Nigerian school or hospital authorities.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Obiajulu_Odumakin; womenarise.org.ng/about-dr-joe-okei-odumakin/)

Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction, and author of Salt to the Sea

Chrystine Oksana is the author, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

Judith Lewis Herman is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author.

Jessica Valenti is an American feminist, writer and journalist; author of The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

Salma Hayek is a Mexican-American film actress, producer, and former model

Kurt Cobain (20 February 1967 – 5 April 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician

Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer and entrepreneur

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker and humanitarian

Viola Davis is an American actress and producer

Somaly Mam is a Cambodian anti-trafficking advocate who focuses primarily on sex trafficking

The Red Army (also known as the Workers and Peasant’s Red Army