When Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are scared to report abuses.
Soldiers patrol a highway from Harare to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe January 2019. Shaun Jusa/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved.
“A woman’s body is not considered hers and any man who wants it can have it”, said Thando Makubaza, a Zimbabwean women’s rights activist, responding to recent allegations of sexual violence against women by the army.
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