KHARKIV, Ukraine — In a dance studio that doubles as a bomb shelter in northeast Ukraine, the little girls in pink tutus prance in like gusts of air. Girls practice in a ballet studio in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 18, 2024. A ballet coach teaches girls in a ballet studio in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, …
Amina was a 16-year-old student in Dhaka when Pakistani army took her from her home. In a deliberate campaign of genocidal rape, Pakistani military personnel and the Razakars raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women and girls during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Noor Jahan and her sister was 14 when she was abducted After 52 years, one of the …
“I stayed at the ashram for over 10 years and was sexually assaulted by the owner,” said a girl from Kolkata — who is currently undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district — as she recounted tales of horror from a shelter home in the southern state. I shared everything I went through with the police …
Note: Some names and place are changed to protect the privacy and safety of individuals who opened up to us to tell their stories. In most cases we have seen that the girl is usually taken to dargahs and maulvis make them tie some thread or drink some ‘holy water’, after which they start getting more inclined towards Islam,” the …
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