Rape in the interior
The rape of women and girls in remote areas of Sarawak is in the news again. As the police close their files on the alleged rape of Penan women by logging camp employees on the grounds of insufficient evidence, a new case opens in a primary school where a teacher is a suspect.
To SWWS (Sarawak Women for Women Society), the lessons for society to learn is that rape happens in the interior and will continue to happen until people who commit this crime know they are going to be found out and held to account for their actions.
Change is needed in awareness, attitudes, and in the action taken after a rape has happened. We urgently need to build effective systems to reach out to people who have been raped so that prompt, appropriate responses occur. This is difficult to achieve in the interior but is a challenge we have to meet. - + selanjutnya
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