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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said investigators had received reports of "hundreds of cases of rape" in areas previously occupied by Russian troops, including sexual assaults of small children. Russian troops have been accused of widespread atrocities across the country, particularly in areas around Kyiv from which they have now withdrawn. The UN has called for an independent investigation into these allegations. For more insight, FRANCE 24 is joined by Hillary Margolis, Senior Researcher in the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. "What we would hope is that [the investigation] would entail very well-trained and experienced investigators who are accustomed to documenting this kind of crime that's highly sensitive and that does often entail a significant degree of trauma." In addition to sexual violence, Human Rights Watch is also investigating other types of war crimes: "We are always looking into a wide range of abuses in any conflict," explains Ms. Margolis, "including summary executions, which we've already documented and published, to cases of torture, to use of particular weapons, and any kinds of atrocities against civilians in conflict."
Newser reports the charges against disgraced Hollywood mogul and sex offender Harvey Weinstein continue to pile up. Los Angeles Country prosecutors say Weinstein was charged Friday with the rape of two more women. The district attorney's office says the charges include three counts of rape and three counts of forcible oral copulation involving the two women. Tallied up, Weinstein is now charged with 11 felony counts in Los Angeles County, involving five women. The 68-year-old is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York on convictions for rape and sexual assault against two women.
Police in southern Italy have arrested four men and are investigating another four on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls at a villa where a party was being held, authorities said on Friday.
In this edition, how rape has become a weapon of war in parts of Cameroon as separatists fight government troops in the Central African country. Also, Brexit may have been delayed for now but what will it mean for women's rights? We talk to Remain campaigner and feminist, Jenna Norman. Plus, the Iranian who became the first from her country to compete and win in an official boxing match, is now worried about heading home.
Colombia's FARC rebels deny having used sexual violence against women as a weapon of war during the half-century-long conflict they have been fighting against the Colombian government.
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