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HRW condemns torture, abuse of women in Syria conflict

(AFP)- Women have been the victims of arbitrary arrest, torture, harassment and discrimination at the hands of government and rebel forces in Syria's three-year conflict, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The New York-based global rights watchdog, in a report, urged the...

Will There Ever Be Justice for Syria’s Rape Survivors?

  (By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...