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Obama Pressed to Act on Post-Rape Abortion Aid | Women's eNews →

Added on June 4, 2015 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

Religious leaders and human rights advocates are convening across the street from the White House today, June 4, to call on President Barack Obama to take executive action to ensure access to abortion for women and girls raped in conflict.

UN Focusing Sexual Violence in Syria, Iraq | Women's eNews →

Added on May 28, 2015 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

Zainab Hawa Bangura, the United Nations special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, recently completed a 12-day trip to assess the use of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage as a strategy of war and tactic of terror in the Middle East, particularly by the Islamic State, or Daesh as some prefer to call the terrorist group. Upon her return, she gave a press conference to the U.N. press corps and subsequently answered Women's eNews' questions via email because she was traveling again.

For Victims of Wartime Rape, Abortion Out of Reach | Womens eNews →

Added on April 28, 2015 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

Here's what one Kenyan woman says about being forced to carry through a pregnancy that resulted from a rape during a conflict period. Obama could end such suffering by clarifying that U.S. law actually does allow abortion funding in such circumstances, a health activist says.