Collecting accounts of atrocity

In the New York Times, Ellen Berry reports on a woman in Staten Island who is collecting narratives from survivors of Liberia’s civil wars for that country's reconciliation commission ...

Increasing violence in Somalia

Nima Elbagir of Independent Television News reports from Somalia, where African Union troops have been trying to keep peace after last year's invasion by Ethiopian troops ...

Sexual violence in Congo

Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times writes a disturbing report on the rape epidemic in Congo. Gettleman writes:

Eastern Congo is going through another one of its convulsions of violence, and this time it seems that women are being systematically attacked on a scale never before seen here. According to the United Nations, 27,000 sexual assaults were reported in 2006 in South Kivu Province alone, and that may be just a fraction of the total number across the country.

Women in combat

In a five-part series, NPR's Michelle Norris looks at the expanding role of women in the U.S. military. Part five follows women who have suffered serious combat injuries. Part four tells about the increasing number of reported sexual assault in the military. (In a related story, Gloria Hillard profiles a veteran named Sandra, who is "among a growing number of young women who have returned from Iraq with both combat trauma and sexual assault.")