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Daily Click: Shine the light on rape in war

The use of rape as a tool of war persists, but attention to it does not. The current Africa tour of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has again shed welcome light on the deplorable and devastating...

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Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and death

“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself,” according to Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) And sadly, he is absolutely...

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Violence Against Individuals with Disability

Last week PLOS ONE published a paper on violence against people with disability in England and Wales. The study is a cross-sectional survey using data from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey that...

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: HIV Self-Testing, Intimate Partner Femicide,...

  Image Credit: jonrawlinson PLOS Medicine published four new articles this week on topics ranging from a research article on intimate partner femicide in South Africa to a commentary on the global...

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