Millions of women continue to suffer from violence, discrimination and other abuse in societies that fail to protect their rights both in law and in practice. If the United States fails to take this treaty seriously, how can we expect the same from other countries with little respect for women's rights?

It's telling that the person who got the most time was the one all over television. The less in the news, the lighter the sentence seems to be.

If they're being taken solely for the purpose of drawing their men out of hiding, it can even appear to look like hostage taking.

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

There's just no way to have a fair trial. They continue to charge people with things that were not previously crimes or not previously recognized as war crimes in a process that didn't previously exist.

You are talking about a prison population of hundreds who have decided that with no conceivable change in their future that they just don't care to live anymore, or they are going to make a statement in dying.