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Indonesia: Exploitation and abuse: the plight of women domestic workers
This report focuses on women and girl domestic workers who work for private employers throughout Indonesia and outlines the human rights abuses they face and makes recommendations to the Indonesian government to ensure that this situation does not continue.
Haiti: after the earthquake
An Amnesty International delegation visited Haiti from 4 to 25 March to assess ongoing human rights concerns stemming from the humanitarian crisis caused by the earthquake of 12 January 2010. In particular, the delegation investigated human rights issues relating to the protection of groups at risk, mostly women and children, in and outside makeshift camps of displaced people.
Breaking the silence
Launched on International Women's Day 2010, a new report finds that survivors of rape in Cambodia face limited access to justice, medical services and counselling.
The Gender Trap: Women, Violence and Poverty
Why is it that more than two thirds of the world’s poor are women, although women are only half of the world’s population? Read Amnesty International's report The Gender Trap: Women, Violence and Poverty to find out more on the state of women in the world today.
The women of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting
In December 2008, Amnesty International delegates visited Bosnia and Herzegovina to conduct field research on the legacy of war crimes of sexual violence. Whose Justice? The Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina Are Still Waiting, is a result of this investigation.
The total abortion ban in Nicaragua
Nicaragua criminalised abortion in all circumstances on 9 July 2008. One year on, Amnesty International has concerns about the human rights violations resulting from the new penal code.
Where to go for help
A list of organisations in each state helping women who are targeted by violence. If you or someone you know needs assistance, please contact one of these services.
Justice for survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system
World War II saw the trafficking of 200,000 women into sexual slavery for use by the Japanese army, euphemistically known as ‘comfort women’. Amnesty International released a report, calling on the Japanese government to provide reparations for crimes committed against these women. The fight for justice continues.
Setting the Standard: NPOA report
We've released a report that could provide a blueprint for an Australian National Plan of Action to eliminate violence against women.
Australian teenagers living with violence
The White Ribbon Foundation has released the report 'An Assault on Our Future' showing that more than half a million teenagers are living with violence in their homes.
Women and children suffer as violence in the Congo escalates
Women and children are targeted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) an Amnesty International report found but since the report the situation has worsened.
Safe schools: Every girl’s right
Education is a crucial step in empowering women, and breaking cycles of poverty, violence and disease. Education is every girl's right. Girls around the world still however face many barriers to education.
Sexual violence survivors await justice in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, many women are still stigmatised and suffering the after-effects of sexual violence perpetrated during the country's conflict, which ended in 2002.
Fact sheets : Stop Violence Against Women
Learn more about violence against women in Amnesty International Australia's special fact sheet series. The nine fact sheets cover a range of issues relating to violence towards women, including domestic violence in Australia, rape in conflict, mythbusting and the call for a National Plan of Action.
Papua New Guinea: Violence against women - Not inevitable, never acceptable
Amnesty International visited three provinces of Papua New Guinea in October 2005 to research the issues and hear from local women.
Women and war
Violence against women during conflict has reached epidemic proportions. Mass rape is frequently used systematically, as a weapon of war. During conflict women are physically and economically forced to become prostitutes, sometimes in order to secure the basic necessities for their families. Women and children are also the majority of refugees and internally displaced persons.
The state failing victims of violence against women
Violence against women goes widely unreported. There are various factors which prevent women from reporting incidents of violence, such as fear of retribution, lack of economic means, emotional dependence, concern for children and no access to redress. Few countries have special training for the police, judicial and medical staff to deal with rape cases.
HIV/AIDS
Increasingly, violence against women is recognized as a major public health concern. Violence can affect woman's reproductive health as well as other aspects of her physical and mental well being. Sexual violence against women has led to higher infection rates of HIV/AIDS than among men of the same age group.
Harmful practices
Key facts and figures relating to harmful practices against women
Facts and figures: women and violence
Key facts and figures relating to women
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