The Women Under Siege Project is an independent initiative of the Women's Media Center (WMC). The project documents online and through social media how...
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Laura Bates (category 21st-century English women writers)
the New York–based Women Under Siege Project. 2013: Cosmopolitan magazine's Ultimate New Feminist Award in 2013. 2014: BBC's 100 women. 2015: Awarded the...
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Wartime sexual violence (category Crimes against women)
192 "'Survival sex': How NGOs and peacekeepers exploit women in war". Women Under Siege Project. Retrieved 30 April 2014. Patten, Pramila (21 January 2021)...
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Women Under Siege is a project of the Women's Media Center. It has reported on the use of rape as a means of oppression in Syria. Women Under Siege has...
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Bangladesh genocide (section Rape of Bengali women)
Pakistani Army. The US based Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center have reported the girls as young as 8 and women as old as 75 were detained...
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The Project asserts a highly controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory, according to which the entire executive branch is under the...
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The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East...
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The Siege of Jerusalem marked the successful end of the First Crusade, whose objective was the recovery of the city of Jerusalem and the Church of the...
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The Siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin...
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during the Holocaust. Steinem led this panel. The Women Under Siege Project, an initiative of the Women's Media Center founded by Steinem and others, was...
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the first day, the women in the fort had been pouring lead into bullet molds and dipping them into water. During the second siege on the following day...
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The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg)...
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Lauren Wolfe (category 21st-century American women journalists)
Journalists. Beginning in September 2011, Wolfe directed the Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center, which documents wartime sexual violence....
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The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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that brought the city of Lisbon under the definitive control of the new Christian power, the Kingdom of Portugal. The siege of Lisbon was one of the few...
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Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was placed under siege by Israel in mid-November 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war, after saying...
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The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on...
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The Siege of Paris took place from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 and ended in the capture of the city by forces of the various states of the North...
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The siege of Gaza City began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip...
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been captured by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege itself consisted of a joint Franco-American attempt...
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The siege of Bihać was a three-year-long siege of the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihać by the Army of the Republika Srpska, the Army of the Republic...
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The siege of Khartoum (also known as the battle of Khartoum or fall of Khartoum) took place from 13 March 1884 to 26 January 1885. Sudanese Mahdist forces...
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Blankman, Under Siege, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, The Hunted, Chain Reaction, Jackson, and the series V.I.P. (on American TV). Under the pseudonym...
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The battle of Khan Yunis, which evolved into the siege of Khan Yunis in late January, began on 1 December 2023 in the midst of the Israeli invasion of...
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The siege of Budapest or battle of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, near...
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The Siege of Sarajevo (Bosnian: Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War....
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The Siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged...
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The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October...
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The siege of Colchester occurred in the summer of 1648 when the Second English Civil War reignited in several areas of Britain. Colchester found itself...
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democratic transition, the project was prematurely cancelled due to American pressures in 1981, although it only formally ended in 1987 under Felipe González. Although...
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