By Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Baileng Mantawil heads a nongovernment organization called Bangsamoro Women Action for Development Initiatives or Bwadi. She is also, she says, a “child of war.”

Her father is a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and as a child she lived with her family in an MILF camp in Maguindanao. When the government launched a major offensive against the MILF, she and other women members of the family had to disguise themselves and flee the camp, crossing a river and trudging through marsh lands. “I think I changed schools about four times during my elementary years,” she recalls. But the onset of peace negotiations put an end to her wanderings, enabling her to finish a Computer Science course from the Mindanao State University in Marawi.

Thursday 21 March 2013, by siawi

Suja Jones, an Indian woman, has taken her French husband to court in the city of Bangalore, India, on charges of rape of their then 3 year-old daughter.
She is fighting a lonely battle.
The French authorities provided continued unilateral support to the accused, an employee at the French consulate in Bangalore, leaving the mother of three minor French citizens alone to fend for them. 
The French media have given a very biased coverage of this case, based on the allegations of the accused father.
This undeniably added an unnecessary hardship on the already deeply wounded mother and children.

We tend to hear about the violation and not the response-- so, important news to hear that the African Commisison on Human and People's Rights has found the Egyptian state responsible for failing to protect four women journalists from sexual assault during protests in Tahrir Square, calling for a full investigation and compensation for the victims and ratification of the AU Women's Protocol . Sadly one of the women Nawal Ali Mohammed Ahmed has since died. To our revolutionary Egyptian sisters, we are with you, always!