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Making sense of the new hell

All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. ...accusations have also been wielded as a tool of war

Survivors are chastised for waiting to speak out against abusers. But what about others who choose silence over truth?

“He asked me to lower my pants and placed the stethoscope down there,” Viviana said. “He would make lewd faces while doing that. I froze and stared into the void. I couldn’t understand why he did that to me.”

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Domestic workers and farmworker women join forces to end sexual violence in their industries, leaving no one behind.