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This Powerful ‘Rap Against Rape’ by Two Indian Women Has Gone Viral

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Mar 18, 2015 Two young Indian women, performing under the moniker BomBaebs, have made a captivating -- and now widely played -- video attacking sexual violence and misogyny in their country. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Islamic State Has Forced 1,500 Women, Girls and Boys Into Sexual Slavery, According to the U.N.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Sep 17, 2014 The heinous sexual violence Islamic State is inflicting on entire families is a form of warfare with long-lasting effects and a "crime against humanity," former CIA analysts Aki Peritz and Tara Maller argue in Foreign Policy magazine, but for some reason the subject's barely been broached by the West. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

CDC Study Finds 1 in 5 U.S. Women Have Been Victims of Rape and That’s Not Even the Scariest Part

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Sep 6, 2014 A report recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 23 million women and about 2 million men in the United States had been raped at some point during their lives. But other numbers in the findings are perhaps even more frightening. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Angelina Jolie Imagines a World in Which Rape in War Zones Can Be Stopped

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2014 It all sounded very inspiring, the vision that actress Angelina Jolie presented during her opening speech in London on Tuesday at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rape Is Grossly Underreported in the U.S.

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 21, 2013 A new study by the National Research Council found major gaps in the data on rape collected by three major accounting groups. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Does Military Service Turn Young Men Into Sexual Predators?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 23, 2009 It can be shown that the patterns of military sex crimes are old and widespread -- for generations, military service has transformed large numbers of American boys into sexual predators. So it seems reasonable to ask whether perhaps there is something about military culture or training or experience that can be identified as causative, and then, perhaps, changed.After generations of silence, the question deserves an answer, and not a simplistic one. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )