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Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya's detention camps are being turned back at sea

Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya's detention camps are being turned back at sea
peyton manning

Callie Crossley: The NFL has an 'UnSuper' record on sexual assault

Callie Crossley: The NFL has an 'UnSuper' record on sexual assault
Daniel Holtzclaw

Callie Crossley: 'I cry for them'

Callie Crossley: 'I cry for them'
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India's 'Power Girls' fight sexual violence and harassment that once made them victims

India's 'Power Girls' fight sexual violence and harassment that once made them victims
Jamaicans take part in a demonstration against the rape of three children and two women in Kingston in 2012.

Caribbean rape culture is back on display

Caribbean rape culture is back on display
Members of the All India Mahila Congress, the women's wing of the Congress {arty, carry placards that read, "The country is covered in shame..."  The women were protesting the rape of a female passenger by an Uber taxi driver in New Delhi.

An alleged rape by an Uber driver is one more sign of India's gender violence problem

Uber bills itself as the "safest ride on the road" for its customers, but the company is now banned from operating in New Delhi after one of its drivers has been accused of raping a passenger. This case is the latest to draw attention to the dangers facing Indian women.

An alleged rape by an Uber driver is one more sign of India's gender violence problem
Bill Cosby attends the American Comedy Awards in New York on April 26, 2014. Jian Ghomeshi attends the Canada for Haiti telethon at the CBC studios in Toronto on January 22, 2010. Rolf Harris arrives for sentencing at Southwark Crown Court in London on Ju

Bill Cosby is unlikely to face rape charges in court, but that wouldn't be the case in other countries

Allegations against Bill Cosby dating from decades ago have stirred a debate in the US over whether legal statutes of limitations should apply to sexual assault cases. Some countries, like Canada and the UK, don't have deadlines for prosecuting such cases, which has allowed prosecutors to open high-profile "historic cases" of assault with some success.

Bill Cosby is unlikely to face rape charges in court, but that wouldn't be the case in other countries

Protests in Kenya aim to spur outrage over violence against women

From India to Dubai to South Africa, cases of violence against women have become local and international news. Now, protesters in Kenya hope to raise awareness there after a gang rape.

Protests in Kenya aim to spur outrage over violence against women
A genocide survivor and her children.

Part III: Born of genocide

Many Rwandan women who are genocide survivors are also rape survivors. Thousands of them bore children as a result and those children, and their mothers, now live at the margins of Rwandan society.

Part III: Born of genocide

Part II: Responding to the crisis

In the midst of overwhelming crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of women have been sexually attacked, aid groups and grassroots organizations are trying to help women recover and rebuild their lives.

Part II: Responding to the crisis
Housing for patients at Panzi hospital.

Part I: Healing the victims

The scope of tragedy in eastern Congo defies comprehension. A war in the African country killed four-million people between 1998 and 2003 and one of the most gruesome features of the conflicts is the widespread use of rape as a weapon. The World's Jeb Sharp reports from Bukavu, in Congo's South Kivu Province.

Part I: Healing the victims