Sexual violence

Japan: The Death of Maricris Sioson

Action Number: 
4.1
Update: 
Not an update
Date: 
1993 Dec 1

The case of Maricris Sioson—her life, her death, and the inaction of the Japanese government despite medical evidence of homicide - is a tragic illustration of the vulnerability of the tens of thousands of Filipino women working in Japan's entertainment industry.

What You Can Do: 

Please bring this case to the attention of the media and the general public. Contact the following Japanese authorities, and the Japanese embassy in your country, expressing your concern over the death of Maricris Sioson and the failure of the Japanese government to investigate the clear evidence that she died of unnatural causes. Call for an investigation of Maricris Sioson's death, and prosecution of those responsible, to demonstrate the commitment of the Japanese government to uphold the rule of law and ensure that justice is done for Maricris Sioson and her family. Letters and petitions should be addressed to the following authorities:

Mr. Ryutaro Hashimoto
Prime Minister
1-6-1 Nagata-cho
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan

Mr. Eiichi Moriyama
Chief Prosecutor
Fukushima Local Prosecutors Office
(Chiho kensatuscho)
17 Kitsunezuka
960 Fukushima, Japan

Mr. Yukihiko Ikeda
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2-2-1 Kasumigaseki
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan

Mr. Takaji Kunimatsu
Commissioner General
The National Police Agency
2-1-2 Kasumigaseki
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan

 

Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Failure to Arrest Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic

Action Number: 
3.6
Update: 
UPDATE
Date: 
2001 Aug 1

There are rape camps all over the country. Thousands of women are being raped and killed. Thousands are pregnant as a result of rape. Over and over again, everywhere I went ... women told me stories of abomination--of being kept in a room, raped repeatedly and told they would be held until they gave birth to Serbian children. I heard stories of men being raped, of forced incest--fathers forced to rape daughters, brothers forced to rape sisters.

What You Can Do: 

Please write to General Joseph Ralston, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, calling on him to apprehend Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, and turn them over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to stand trial for the crimes they are charged with. Please also write to the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, Mladen Ivanic, noting the recently-adopted legislation that approves co-operation with the ICTY and asking him to take steps to ensure the immediate arrest of Karadzic and Mladic.

General Joseph Ralston
Supreme Allied Commander for Europe
NATO Headquarters
1110 Brussels
BELGIUM

H.E. Mladen Ivanic
Prime Minister of Republika Srpska
Banja Luka
Republika Srpska
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Kosovo: Forced Removal, Rape, Genocide

Action Number: 
3.5
Update: 
UPDATE
Date: 
1999 Apr 1

A genocidal campaign of "ethnic cleansing" has displaced hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo. There have been steady reports of killings, forced removals, and burning of villages. Now the first report of rape has emerged—young ethnic Albanian women being raped by Yugoslav soldiers at an army training camp near the town of Dakovica and as many as twenty women killed. But rape is not a new weapon of war in the Serbian arsenal.

What You Can Do: 

Through the poster in this action, Equality Now hopes to highlight the fact that the atrocities which are occurring in Kosovo are being carried out under orders, and that there are individuals such as Slobodan Milosevic who are directly responsible for them. Distribute the poster as widely as possible and call on NATO to take immediate action to arrest indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, and to be prepared to take immediate action to arrest Slobodan Milosevic if and when he is indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Appeals should be addressed to Dr. Javier Solana, the Secretary General of NATO, and General Wesley K. Clark, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, at NATO Headquarters, 1110 Brussels, Belgium.

WANTED
Slobodan Milosevic
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
FOR MASS RAPE AND MURDER
IN KOSOVO

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Forced Removal, Genocide

Action Number: 
3.4
Update: 
UPDATE
Date: 
1995 Aug 1

On July 11, 1995, the town of Srebrenica was overrun and captured by Bosnian Serb forces. Srebrenica had been declared a "safe area" by the United Nations in the summer of 1993 and United Nations peacekeepers were stationed in Srebrenica when it fell to the Bosnian Serbs. Numerous atrocities were reported by fleeing refugees, mostly women, children and the elderly, who initially went to Potocari, where United Nations peacekeepers guided them to factory buildings for the night and assured them that they would be safe.

What You Can Do: 

Continue to use the poster below to highlight the ongoing atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina—get it published in local newspapers, put it on billboards, hand it out at public events. Send copies of ads or photos of the poster, or the poster itself, to your President, Prime Minister, elected representatives, and government officials responsible for foreign affairs, and to Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, New York, New York 10017. Call for immediate and effective action to stop the genocidal rape and killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina and call for international action to ensure the prompt arrest and trial of Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, and others indicted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal.

WANTED
Radovan Karadzic
RADOVAN KARADZIC
FOR MASS RAPE AND MURDER
IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Action Number: 
3.3
Update: 
UPDATE
Date: 
1994 Apr 1

In February 1993 Equality Now sent Feryal Gharahi, a Moslem lawyer and Vice-Chair of Equality Now, to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina where she documented the use of systematic mass rape and forced pregnancy as part of the Serbian genocidal "ethnic cleansing" policy. In June 1993 Feryal Gharahi returned to Croatia and travelled to the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina where she interviewed UNHCR officials, relief workers, and a number of recently arrived refugees.

What You Can Do: 

Use the poster on the reverse side of this page to highlight the ongoing atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina—get it published in local newspapers, put it on billboards, hand it out at public events. Send copies of ads or photos of the poster, or the poster itself, to your President, Prime Minister, elected representatives, and government officials responsible for foreign affairs, and to Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, New York, New York 10017. Call for immediate action to stop the genocidal rape and killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina and call for the swift prosecution of war criminals such as Radovan Karadzic by the International Tribunal.

WANTED
Radovan Karadzic

RADOVAN KARADZIC
FOR MASS RAPE AND MURDER
IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Action Number: 
3.2
Update: 
UPDATE
Date: 
1993 Jun 1

In February 1993, Equality Now sent Feryal Gharahi, a Muslim lawyer and Vice-Chair of Equality Now, to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she documented the use of systematic mass rape and forced pregnancy as part of the Serbian genocidal "ethnic cleansing" policy. In June 1993, Feryal Gharahi returned to Croatia and travelled to the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she interviewed UNHCR officials, relief workers, and a number of recently arrived refugees.

What You Can Do: 

Use the poster below to highlight the ongoing atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina—get it published in local newspapers, put it on billboards, hand it out at public events. Send copies of ads or photos of the poster, or the poster itself, to your President, Prime Minister, elected representatives, and government officials responsible for foreign affairs, and to the Secretary General of the United Nations, New York, New York 10017. Call for immediate action to stop the genocidal rape and killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Try to send the poster and other messages of protest directly to Radovan Karadzic by fax at 38-11-235-1213.

WANTED
Radovan Karadzic

RADOVAN KARADZIC
FOR MASS RAPE AND MURDER
IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Action Number: 
3.1
Update: 
Not an update
Date: 
1993 Feb 1

In February 1993, Equality Now sent Feryal Gharahi, a Muslim lawyer and a board member of Equality Now, to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Here are some of her findings:

What You Can Do: 

Use the poster below to encourage discussion in the media and elsewhere of the personal responsibility that leaders such as Radovan Karadzic have for the ongoing atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Get the poster published in local newspapers, put it on billboards, hand it out at public events. Send copies of ads or photos of the poster, or the poster itself, to your government representatives and to the Security Council at the United Nations, New York, New York 10017. Call for immediate action to stop the genocidal rape and killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. You can also try to send the poster and other messages of protest directly to Radovan Karadzic by fax at 38-11-235-1213.

WANTED

RADOVAN KARADZIC
FOR MASS RAPE AND MURDER
IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

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