Four, short years ago, Jamie Leigh Jones was 20 years old at the time when she survived a horrific attack. Jones had been sent to work in Iraq just four days prior to being violently raped and brutalized in her own barracks by fellow Halliburton employees… The horrific experience had left Jones physically mauled, emotionally scarred and left without justice. Regardless of the tremendous physical and circumstantial evidence present, the Department of Justice declined to investigate her case, while Halliburton was less than cooperative during the situation. KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, stated that despite the severity of the issue, Jones’ case must go to arbitration.

Women were primary targets of the Guinean soldiers who brutally repressed a political demonstration at a stadium in Conakry, the capital city of the West African nation. On September 28, soldiers shot and killed unarmed opposition demonstrators, approximately 50,000 of whom had gathered at the stadium to protest the military junta currently in power in Guinea.

Shahin Begum, an elementary school teacher in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, told the New York Times: “‘When the Taliban fled, our burqas went with them.’”[1] The Taliban took control of Mingora, the largest city of the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan, in February of 2009. When in power, they imposed rigid rules governing women’s lives; women were forbidden to go to traditional women’s shopping centers, some feared traveling to their places of employment, and those who worked in public places were required to wear a burqa.