Three new countries join the COMMIT initiative, bringing the total number to 16. Jamaica has pledged to ratify CEDAW’s Optional Protocol; Japan commits to a national plan to end gender violence with concrete policy measures; and Poland promises to ratify the Council of Europe Convention.
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South Africa – From Victim to Victor
In South Africa—a country often referred to as the murder and rape capital of the world—one group of women are especially at risk. Lesbians are increasingly the targets of a particularly heinous crime: “curative” or “corrective” rape, which perpetrators believe will change their sexual orientation. We travel to South Africa to mark the-
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