Is Delhi So Different From Steubenville?

Gender violence is one of the world’s most common human rights abuses. Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined. The World Health O…

Rape in the age of social media

Irin Carmon at Salon writes: “They are a loop of retraumatization, these images replaying sexual violence and the culture around it, but they are something else, too: evidence. They are proof not just for a courtroom that formally recognizes the existenc…

After Being Raped, I Was Wounded; My Honor Wasn’t

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Sohaila Abdulali writes: “When I was 17, I could not have imagined thousands of people marching against rape in India, as we have seen these past few weeks. And yet there is still work to be done. We have spent…

Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City

*Trigger warning* Juliet Macur and Nate Schweber write for The New Times: “The case is not the first time a high school football team has been entangled in accusations of sexual assault. But the situation in Steubenville has another layer to it that sepa…