Women and Children

Eradicating honor-based violence "require[s] mass education, consistent law enforcement and the vigorous assistance of the clergy," said Chesler. This means prosecuting not just the direct perpetrators, who expect and accept that they risk punishment, but also the wider circle of relatives who indirectly facilitate it. "I think after you arrest the...

Speaking under the pseudonym of "Ella," a British woman recently revealed that her Muslim rapists called her "a white wh*re, and a white b*tch," during the more than 100 times she was raped in her youth by the mostly Pakistani grooming gang.

A woman who has been humiliated, battered, and death threatened almost daily from childhood on; who has not been taught that she is an individual and, as such, entitled to human rights; does not believe she has an identity other than that of daughter, sister, wife, and mother - how can such a person suddenly decide that her life is...

In response to the release of the Manchester inquiry results, Mabs Hussain, Head of Specialist Crime for the Greater Manchester Police, said: "We accept that authorities fell short of doing all they could to protect and support the child victims of sexual exploitation." No, the Manchester police didn't fall short. They stonewalled. They lied. They...