I’m a deaf 35 year old woman with two children. I’m also HIV positive. I was raped twice by the same man. It happened when I was working as a carpenter’s assistant. The men used to come up to me and ask for sexual favors. I rejected them. At the time, I couldn’t communicate using… Read More Gida’s Story
Imagine being forced to marry the man who raped you? This was the horrible reality 16 year Amina Filali faced. This drove Amina to take her own life. In a variety of cultures, marriage after the fact has been treated historically as a “resolution” to the rape of an unmarried woman. Citing Biblical injunctions (particularly Exodus… Read More Morocco to change Rape Law
Notes to Women 