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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | DECEMBER 14, 2017 |
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Photo © 2017 Bonnie Katei for Human Rights Watch | Judith Wavinya was walking home on a cool August night in her neighborhood in Nairobi, after spending the evening with her sister. She had to get back home to her three children.
Then she came to a group of young men, two of them approached her menacingly. When she looked down, she could see that they had knives pointing towards her.
Judith is just one of many women and girls, along with some men and boys, who are victims of sexual violence during Kenya’s recent elections.
Many survivors of sexual violence who spoke to Human Rights Watch say they face stigma in their communities and receive no support when they seek help from the authorities.
For Judith, the rape changed everything. “To be honest, I have nothing now. They finished me,” she says. |
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| | | Winter is coming to the Greek islands, and many migrants and asylum seekers are stuck there in desperate conditions. Last week, Greece pledged to move 5,000 people to the mainland, but many more are still at risk as winter apparoaches. Help us tell Greece to #OpenTheIslands! |
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| | | Drawing from tweets by HRW and our 200-plus tweeps on staff, and shares by a global audience of supporters numbering more than three million on Twitter, here is a chronological snapshot of 2017 in human rights tweets. |
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| | | Human Rights Watch released a report this month that included, for the first time in our history, photographic evidence that we collected with a semi-autonomous robotic plane, commonly called a drone. |
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