Sep 13 Watch In Congo, Attitudes About Rape as a Weapon Remain Tough to Change Gwen Ifill talks with two experts familiar with the sexual violence that has occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past decade. Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch DNA Evidence Frees Florida Inmate After 35 Years A Florida inmate has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Nov 05 Watch Teen's Rape Leaves California Community Stunned Spencer Michels reports from Richmond, Calif., where a teen girl was gang raped while dozens of people looked on without offering help. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Systemic Rape, Fighting Threaten Congo's Future Secretary of State Clinton condemned sexual abuse by Congolese soldiers and rebels against civilians. A women's rights advocate describes the scope of the atrocities. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Amid Clinton Visit, a Look at Persistent Troubles in Congo A report looks at international peacekeeping efforts in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited this week. Continue watching
Jun 25 Court Rejects Executions for Child Rape, Reduces Damages Against Exxon By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child and reduced the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch Laws Restricting Lives of Sex Offenders Raise Constitutional Questions Twenty-two states have laws that restrict where convicted sex offenders may live and, in some cases, how they interact with the community after they are released from prison. Jeffrey Kaye reports on the laws and the constitutional questions they've raised. Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch In Rwanda, U.S.-Backed Program Improves Access to AIDS Drugs A U.S. program to curb AIDS in Africa is having success providing antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients in Rwanda -- particularly pregnant women and newborns. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer begins a series of reports examining the impact of the American… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Group in India Targets Sex Trade An organization in India is fighting forced prostitution by counseling and training women in other forms of work and helping their children so they don't follow in their mothers' footsteps. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television provides… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch Fighting Prompts Thousands More to Enter Darfur Camps Refugees International visited several camps in Darfur, Sudan, where fighting between the government and rebel groups has forced at least 25,000 more people to flee their homes and enter the camps. Ken Bacon, President of Refugees International, talks about the… Continue watching