VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Manchester serial rapist is NOT in the Philippines
There are no statements from British authorities nor reports from U.K.-based and international media that the Indonesian man has escaped.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: MISLEADING 2019 post on death penalty for rape revived
The claims made about the death penalty for the crime of rape in five nations, four of them Islamic, need context.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral ‘rape-slay’ HOAXES misuse netizens’ photos, molestation awareness video
This post is fake. Don't believe it.
There’s a land where rape does not exist
Two young Filipinas had a tie that bound them. They were both victims of rape by their kin in their innocence. It was with sheer wonder and fascination that they embarked together on a research journey---validating a finding from an anthropological study of the Bontoks , where no one knew about rape.
Few rape cases filed, prosper
Instead of encouraging victims of violence to submit themselves to the criminal justice system, state agencies do the opposite—they frustrate the victims and confirm that it is so much easier to leave the matter to fate and divine retribution.
Systemic silencing: Little incentive to cry ‘rape!’
LOCKED up in a small, dark, musty room with broken windows at the bottom of one of the ground-floor stairs of the Philippine General Hospital are hundreds of white boxes—rape kits full of specimen from victims. But the boxes lie idle, exposed to heat and to bugs and rats, their contents ignored and later disposed of without accomplishing their purpose.
