Domestic Rape
Rape and other acts of sexual violence against women and (mostly girl) children is widespread across all communities, cultures, countries and continents:
in the home, community, institutions
through patriarchal cultural practices (eg child brides, temple girls)
through distorted cultural beliefs (eg sex with a virgin 'cures HIV/AIDS', 'brings good fortune' or 'restores virility')
Men are the problem and the solution
Men who commit rape, and men who trivialise rape, come from all cultures and all levels of society including the highest levels of political power.
Increasingly better men around the world are speaking out against sexual violence, with messages to men.
“If I had two messages, it would be ‘No means no’, and I would ask every dad to go home and talk to their son and let them know that when it comes to being a man, there’s nothing more important than respecting a woman.”