Content warning: The following piece discusses the sexual abuse and murder of women and of a minor. It also includes brief mentions of suicide.
“How much longer can we look away! Women’s rights are human rights,” Indian journalist Faye D’Souza declared on Instagram. “Enough is enough.” D’Souza’s post referred to a series of cases in the news surrounding sexual violence against Indian women.
BY SAMAN BHAT ’22
After 10 months of incarceration, three Saudi women’s rights activists — Iman al-Nafjan, a famous Saudi blogger, Aziza al-Youssef, a retired lecturer at King Saud University and Ruqaya al-Mohareb, an academic were temporarily released from prison. The women finally went home last Thursday, March 28 after being arrested along with over a dozen other activists in May of 2018.