Documenting gender persecution helps to tell the full story of conflict or other atrocities.

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The crime against humanity of gender persecution is the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law. This means prosecutors can and should highlight all fundamental rights violations that a perpetrator intentionally causes when committing a crime that may amount to gender persecution.

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Gender Persecution is a Crime that Can Hold 
Human Rights Accountable

“Persecution” is the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law because of a group’s identity or collectivity.

Perpetrators may commit torture to enforce discriminatory policies.

For example, women’s human rights defenders in Afghanistan have been tortured for demonstrating for women’s rights, including the rights to education and to work. These acts may constitute the deprivation of the fundamental right to freedom from torture as well as the fundamental rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, to education and to work. Taken together, such fundamental rights deprivations are severe and may amount to gender persecution. Gender persecution charges can hold criminally accountable perpetrators of torture and of violations of the rights to assembly, education and work.

Perpetrators may commit murder to enforce discriminatory gender policies.

For example, perpetrators may sentence to death women because they served as politicians or journalists, or victims perceived to be LGBTQI+ persons. These acts may constitute the deprivation of the fundamental right to freedom from murder as well as the fundamental rights to work and freedom of expression. Taken together, such fundamental rights deprivations are severe and may amount to gender persecution. Thus, gender persecution charges can hold murder and violations of the right to freedom of expression and the right to work.

Sexual violence is almost always committed with gender discrimination and may amount to gender persecution.

For example, perpetrators may target women and girls because they view them as “chattel” or “war booty” (based on the discriminatory belief that women are lesser than men and should be treated like property). At the same time, perpetrators may target men and boys through rape as a strategy to “feminise” them and/or to invoke the “indignity” of being treated as a woman or a “homosexual” (based on the belief that men enjoy a higher standing than women or LGBTQI+ persons). See ICC – OTP Gender Persecution Policy Paper, para. 51. These acts may constitute the deprivation of the fundamental right to freedom from sexual violence as well as the fundamental right to freedom from discrimination (that undergirds all persecution crimes). Thus, gender persecution charges can hold accountable perpetrators of sexual violence crimes and of violations of the right to be free from discrimination.

Criminal acts committed against children can be both crimes against humanity and human rights violations that may amount to gender persecution.

For example, the crime of bombing a girls’ school in furtherance of a prohibition on girls’ education may amount to a severe deprivation of the fundamental right to life and the right to education. Taken together, such fundamental rights deprivations are severe and may amount to gender persecution. Thus, gender persecution charges can hold crimes against children and violations of the right to education.

Inhumane acts that amount to crimes against humanity are also human rights violations and may amount to gender persecution.

For example, perpetrators who beat women for being in public without a male guardian violate the fundamental right to freedom of movement, as well as the right to be free from inhumane treatment. Taken together, such fundamental rights deprivations are severe and may amount to gender persecution. Thus, gender persecution charges can hold inhumane acts and violations of the right to freedom of movement.


Documentation

Below are documented incidents, acts, conduct and other evidence that may prove gender persecution.

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Code Date Groups Summary Source
AF-003 2021 Women The Taliban beat women demonstrators demanding equal rights during a protest. NGO Report
AF-004 2021 Women, girls Taliban leaders issue an order to religious leaders to provide a list of girls over 15 and widows under 45 for marriage to Taliban fighters. Media
AF-009 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A Taliban judge states in an interview that homosexuals will be punished with torture and/or murder by means of stoning or having a wall fall on top of them. Media
AF-013 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members beat a woman student and her driver on their way to the university because the woman was not wearing a niqab that covered her face. NGO Report
AF-013 2022 Men The Taliban force professors to have beards in high education institutions or be fired from their position. NGO Report
AF-013 2022 Women Taliban officials forbid shopkeepers from selling their products to women who are not wearing the hijab. NGO Report
AF-010 2021 Women, girls, supporters. Taliban members injure and kill protestors advocating for women's right to work; Taliban subsequently bans protests without prior approval. NGO Report
AF-017 2021 Women A high school teacher reports death threats from the Taliban for once teaching co-ed sports. NGO Report
AF-018 2022 Women Taliban members beat three women students at the entrance to their university for wearing colored clothes. NGO Report
AF-018 2022 Women, girls Taliban members do not allow girls to enter their university without a headscarf and beat a number of girls for not wearing one. NGO Report
AF-018 2022 Girls, Supporters Taliban members beat a taxi driver in front of a university for transporting a girl who did not have a mahram. NGO Report
AF-019 2022 Girls Two girls are publicly humilated by the Taliban for not wearing the full hijab; their parents are summoned to state agency in charge of implemnting Islamic law. NGO Report
AF-019 2022 Women The Taliban beat a woman after questioning her about not having a mahram in the bazaar. NGO Report
AF-019 2022 Girls A 70-year-old member of the Taliban forcibly marries a 14-year-old girl. NGO Report
AF-020 2022 Women, girls, supporters Women leave a program set up by the Taliban in protest of the Taliban's policies towards women and are arrested for their dissent. NGO Report
AF-020 2022 Women Members of the Taliban beat several students who are women for not wearing long black burqas and covering their faces. NGO Report
AF-021 2022 Women Members of the Taliban gang rape women prisoners. These prisoners were arrested for attempting to flee the country. Media
AF-022 2022 Women A woman reports sexual assault against her by her brother-in-law to the Taliban. Taliban members arrest and lash them both, and then force the woman to marry her assailant. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Women Taliban members verbally abuse a group of women who were shopping in the bazaar because they did not have a mahram with them. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Women, girls, supporters Taliban members beat and arrest male shopkeepers for allowing women into their stores without mahrams. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Men Taliban members threaten to cut off a barber's hands if he continued to trim men's beards. UN Report
AF-022 2021 Women, supporters Journalists are arrested, detained, and severely injured by the Taliban for covering protests by women. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Women, supporters A Taliban judge uses physical violence and intimidation in an attempt to force a woman to accept a marriage offer. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Women A woman is arrested in her home by the Taliban and held for over a week for being a journalist and a women's rights defender who participated in protests against the Taliban's restrictions on women. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Women, supporters A woman doctor is arrested by the Taliban from her medical clinic and detained for over a week for holding an indoor protest, calling for the release of two women's rights defenders who were imprisoned by the Taliban. UN Report
AF-022 2022 Girls A 15-year-old girl has been arrested and imprisoned by the Taliban for refusing to marry an older man that she was sold to by her father. UN Report
AF-024 2022 Women The Taliban decrees that women cannot leave their home without a mahram in addition to other travel restrictions for women.. NGO Report
AF-024 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members kill a woman and wound two others who were protesting for women's rights. Taliban members additionally threaten reporters for covering the protest. NGO Report
AF-026 2022 Women, girls, LGBTQI+ persons A woman flees Afghanistan with her daughters to prevent their father from selling them to Taliban fighters and from publicly exposing her as a lesbian, which is punishable by death under Sharia law. NGO Report
AF-028 2022 Women, girls The Taliban forces the shut down of domestic violence shelters by labeling them as "brothels" and thus subjecting those staying in the shelters to targeting and potential attack. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Women university students living on campus are forced to adhere to a dress code and prevented from leaving campus without a mahram, under penalty of explusion. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Taliban members threaten a woman nurse at her workplace in a government hospital for dissenting againt demands that she stop working and communicating with men and change her uniform; she is ultimately fired from her job after attending a protest against the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women A women high school teacher is threatened and humilated by a Taliban member for not complying with requirements to travel to and from work with a mahram because her male relatives are not in town. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women The Taliban replace the all-female staff at a private school with an all male staff, after telling the former principal that she would not be invited back to her role because women cannot work in high-level positions. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women, supporters A taxi driver is beaten for transporting a woman who was traveling to work without a mahram. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Taliban members stop women on the streets telling them that they should not show any strand of their hair and should not wear trousers. They tell women to also wear shoes that do not make noise when they walk. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women A woman student is physically restrained from entering her university because she is wearing a long and loose dress that is not the black niqab or the burka. NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women A Taliban member beats a woman journalist on her way to work for exposing her wrist and hand when she raised her arm. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Taliban arrest and detain women and girls for fleeing abuse or for "moral corruption" or "unlawful sexual intercourse" because they fail to observe mahram restrictions; women and girls in detention are denied lawyers, forced to accept charges and subjected to beating, torture and inhumane conditions. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women A woman and her two daughters are detained for being in the market without a mahram. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women The Taliban arrests and detains a woman university student on charges that she has attempted unlawful sexual intercourse; this charge was leveled because she was in violation of the mahram restructions. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women, Supporters At a Taliban checkpoint, a woman who is a caseworker for an international NGO and is traveling with her male colleauge is verablly abused and arrested for being in violation of the mahram restrictions; her male colleague is slapped in the face. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Women fleeing gender-based domestic violence or fomerly residing in domestic violence shelters are imprisoned because the shelters have been shut down and there is nowhere else for them to go. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women The Taliban detain a woman for violation of the mahram restrictions, verbally abuse her, torture her by electric shock, and threaten to kill her. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women A woman detained for violations of Taliban policies is subjected to solitary confinement. The Taliban separate her from her baby and lock her in a dark room. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women Women detainees imprisoned for fleeing domestic violence are only let out if they marry an extended family member or a member of the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-030 2022 Women and girls The Taliban bans girls from going to school; in one instance, a 17 year old girl is foreced into marriage after her secondary school is closed by the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women A 19-year-old girl escapes being forcibly married to a Taliban member. She was then subject to domestic violence by her family for not marrying a member of the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women A women is forcibly married to a member of the Taliban, aided by members of her family, and subject to regular beatings and verbal abuse. NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women, girls A 15-year-old girl is forced to marry a member of the Taliban after members entered her home and took her from her parents. NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women, supporters A woman who was protesting restrictions by the Taliban is verbally abused by Taliban members who call her a "prostitute" and a "puppet of America." NGO Report
AF-030 2021 Women A woman is arrested, beaten, and called a prostitute for protesting. The Taliban tells her that she does not know how to behave and they will "fix" her. NGO Report
AF-031 2022 Women Girls without burqas are barred from entering their university by the Taliban; they beat any woman who dissents. NGO Report
AF-031 2022 Women Women students protest Taliban restrictions at their university, including enforcing a dress code and preventing women from attending school, and are beaten by members of the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-031 2022 Women Taliban members seal shops for selling goods to women not wearing the hijab. NGO Report
AF-031 2022 Women Taliban members arrest a woman fleeing domestic violence and return her to her home and her abusive husband. NGO Report
AF-033 2022 Women Taliban members prevent a woman from entering her place of work, stating that only men workers were allowed to enter. After she protests the restriction, a Taliban member points his rifle at her and tells her to leave or he will shoot her. Media
AF-040 2022 Women Taliban members storm a venue where women human rights defenders are launching "Afghan Women Movement for Equality", detaining women participants and deleting photos and videos from participants' cell phones. Media
AF-043 2021 Women A woman doctor recalls the Taliban barred women at her hospital from working the night shifts and stated that the women must work in separate rooms from their colleagues that are men. When she objected to these new rules, she was sent home and suspended. Media
AF-044 2022 Women A woman is detained for her affiliation with women's rights defenders for protesting Taliban rule. Media
AF-048 2022 Women The Taliban denies women students entry to their university because that are not wearing burqas. Media
AF-050 2022 Women Taliban members stop women students on their way to university. One woman runs away after they attempt to slap her for wearing nail polish. The Taliban calls ahead to the next checkpoint to apprehend and punish her. Media
AF-051 2022 Women Members of the Taliban enter women's classrooms and force women to lift their long skirts to show their undergarments. If women are wearing "western-style" pants, the Taliban beat them with electrical cables. Government Report
AF-051 2022 Girls The Taliban instructs principals of various schools to examine the bodies of 10 and 11 year old girls for signs of puberty for the purpose of expelling girls whose bodies are maturing. Government Report
AF-051 2022 Women, girls A fifth grade girl is beaten by the Taliban for not having her face covered in her classroom. Government Report
AF-054 2022 Women A woman protesting for women's rights is arbitrarily arrested after the Taliban broke into her home to search for her after the protest. NGO Report
AF-055 2022 Girls A Taliban member pays money to marry a 14-year-old girl. NGO Report
AF-055 2022 Girls The Taliban whips a group of 16 children because the girls in the group are not observing the hijab while visiting the market. NGO Report
AF-055 2022 Women, Supporters Taliban members arrest a woman Youtuber and her cameraman for interviewing men. NGO Report
AF-055 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A 15-year-old child is sentenced by the Taliban court to three years in prison for being accused of homosexuality. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban approach a gay man at a checkpoint, call him a homophobic slur, and severely beat him; they take him to another location where he is further tortured and gang-raped. The Taliban continue to monitor him and his family after he is released. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A Taliban member continously threatens a gay man until he agrees to meet. The Taliban member then rapes the gay man and threatens to kill him if he reports the assault. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 Women, LGBTQI+ persons A trans woman is whipped at a Taliban checkpoint because of her appearance. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A bisexual man is attacked by a group of Taliban members because of his clothing and because he had shaved his beard. They tell him, "Why do you shave your face like a girl? Why do you act like a girl?" NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A trans man is beaten on the street by members of the Taliban after being reported to the Taliban as a "woman wearing men's clothing." NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members stop a gay man on his way to university, interrogate him about his appearance, search his phone and find videos of him dancing, call him derogatory names, threaten him, and severely beat him. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 Women, LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members enter a fitness studio owned by an unmarried woman who they believe is a lesbian and destroy all of her property. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 Women, LGBTQI+ persons A trans woman is beaten by the Taliban at a checkpoint. The Taliban question her about her lack of beard and threaten to stone her to death. NGO Report
AF-059 2021 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban question the family of a gay man about his whereabouts for being "involved in homosexuality", forcing him into hiding. His brother is taken to the police station, beaten and interrogated about his whereabouts. NGO Report
AF-062 2022 Women Women activists are attacked and threatened by Taliban members while protesting for women's basic rights. Taliban members assign enforcement roles to shopkeepers, teachers, and other ordinary citizens. Government Report
AF-062 2022 Women Taliban members enter an elementary school to enforce the order that students and teachers must keep their faces, except for their eyes, covered in class. These members raid the school and severely beat accused violators. Government Report
AF-062 2022 Women, girls Taliban members beat students and teachers at a private girls' schools for not abiding by the Taliban's dress regulations; cited violations included include wearing pants, outer robes that do not reach their ankles or clothing in colors other than black. Government Report
AF-063 2022 Women, supporters Taliban intelligence department arrests women human rights defenders and male supporters for holding a press conference. UN Report
AF-072 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members arrest a woman and her family member for protesting against the Taliban's policies denying women's rights. The Taliban imprison the woman for nearly one month. Media
AF-076 2022 Women The Taliban detain women protestors demonstrating against the group's policies denying women's rights. Media
AF-077 2022 Women Taliban members fire gunshots into the air to disperse women protestors demonstrating against the Taliban's policies and beat several of the protestors. Media
AF-078 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members severely beat a woman journalist, an act which she belives to be in retaliation for her work as a female journalist After publicly sharing details of the attack, Taliban members detain her family members until the journalist gives a retraction. NGO Report
AF-088 2022 Women Taliban members send threats to a woman activist for advocating for women's rights; she is forced into hiding. Media
AF-096 2022 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice established prisons for LGBTIQ+ persons. Media
AF-097 2022 Women Taliban members whip a woman for not having a mahram. Media
AF-099 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A gay Afghan man is living in hiding for fear of being found and tortured or killed by the Taliban. Media
AF-099 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A gay Afghan man has changed his appearance and no longer dresses in-line with his gender identity for fear of being recognized and arrested by the Taliban. Media
AF-100 2022 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban break into the house of a gay man, call him slurs, and severely beat and torture him, forcing him into hiding. Media
AF-100 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members beat and torture a gay Afghan man several times. Media
AF-100 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members torture and kill a queer Afghan person. Media
AF-100 2022 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban place a gay man on list of LGBTQI+ activists they intend to kill because they believe he is encouraging young people to become homosexuals. Media
AF-100 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members torture a gay Afghan man in order to get him to confess that he is gay so that he can be executed. Media
AF-100 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members repeatedly stab a non-binary individual while stating that the group wants to kill people like them. Media
AF-101 2022 Women Taliban members severely beat and arrest women protesting the Taliban's ban on women attending university. Media
AF-106 2022 Women Taliban members beat women protesting on university campuses against the group's sweeping restrictions on women. Media
AF-109 2022 Women, men, girls, boys, supporters Taliban members detain women and their families, including small children, for protesting against the Taliban's policies that deny women's rights. In detention, Taliban members threaten, beat, torture, deny due process, and set abusive conditions of release. NGO Report
AF-110 2022 Women Taliban members beat, whip, use pepper spray on, shoot at, and level gendered epithets at women protesting against an attack on an education center for women and girls. Media
AF -112 2023 Women The Taliban close salons, public restrooms and sports centers for women, all important sectors of employment for women in Afghanistan. Media
AF-114 2023 Women The Taliban ban women from most forms of employment; women are still allowed to work in healthcare but must be accompanied by a mahram. Media
AF-116 2021 Women, girls A toddler dies from a curable illness because her mother does not have a mahram, as required by the Taliban's policies, to travel to a health center while the girl's father is working away from their home. Media
AF-118 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members beat a gay Afghan man on multiple occasions for 'acting] like a girl', harass him, and prevent him from going to university. Media
AF-118 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A gay Afghan man flees the country when he finds out his boyfriend has been killed and that the Taliban are searching for him. Media
AF-118 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A gay Afghan man must constantly move and change his address to escape ongoing harrassment from the Taliban. Media
AF-118 2022 Women The Taliban prevent women university students from returning home for school holidays if they do not have a mahram to accompany them. Media
AF-119A 2022 Women The Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice prohibits women from using public transportation without a mahram. Media
AF-123 2022 Women Taliban security forces violently crackdown on a protest led by women university students and locked protesters inside dorm room to prevent them from demonstrating. Media
AF-125 2021 Women, supporters Taliban members beat demonstrators with batons at women-led protests against the group's seizure of power and arrest women, men and their family members. Government Report
AF-126 2022 Women The Taliban detain women suspected to be travelling out of Afghanistan without a mahram. Media
AF-126 2022 Women A feminist activist is captured by Taliban members when she tries to leave the country and is detained and imprisoned for 10 days. Media
AF-126 2022 Girls A girl who accused a former Taliban official of rape, forced marriage and blackmailing is detained trying to leave the country, arrested, and returned to Kabul. Media
AF-128 2022 Women Taliban members beat women protesting the group's deprivation of women's rights. Media
AF-130 2022 Women The Taliban uses water cannons against Afghan women protesting against the Taliban's ban on girls' education. Media
AF-133 2022 Women The Taliban issues a ban on women's employment; women working in government are told to provide the names of male relatives who can take over their positions. Media
AF-134 2022 Women Taliban members violently attack women protesting the Taliban's hijab requirements using whips and batons. Media
AF-118 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A queer Afghan man is arrested in front of his family because of his sexuality. Media
AF-137 2022 Women In September 2022, Taliban members violently break up a protest where Afghan women are demonstrating in solidarity with Iranian women by firing into the air and threatening to hit women with their rifle butts. Media
AF-138 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Following a pattern of violence against Afghanistan’s LGBTQ+ community, a gay Afghan man is stopped by Taliban gunmen at a traffic checkpoint, detained and tortured before being shot and killed. Media
AF-138 2022 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban arrest a gay Afghan man several times on account of his sexuality and rape, beat, and torture him with electric shocks. Media
AF-140 2022 Women, girls The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education bans university education for women. Media
AF-141 2022 Girls Taliban members barge into girls' classrooms and demand that the students go home in order to enforce the Taliban's edict that bans girls from receiving any education beyond sixth grade. Media
AF-141 2022 Girls, supporters Taliban members threaten teachers that the group will take physical actions against them if they continue to teach girls English. Media
AF-143 2022 Women, girls A woman student barely survives a suicide bombing at her education center. Media
AF-148 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban use multiple tactics to identify and find LGBTQI+ people, including identifying them from social media posts, during searches at checkpoints, and through emboldening community members to surveil and report on LGBTQI+ people. Media
AF-149 LGBTQI+ persons, supporters Taliban members conduct house searches for people they suspect to be LGBTQI+ and their family members, and abduct, torture, and kill them. Media
AF-151 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban entrap LGBTQI+ individuals and torture them so that they give up other LGBTQI+ people in thier network. Media
AF-152 2022 Women A woman NGO worker is fired after the Taliban issue an edict prohibiting women from working at I/NGOs. Media
AF-152 2022 Women The Taliban issues an edict banning women from working at foreign and domestic NGOs. Media
AF-158 ongoing LGBTQI+ persons, supporters The Taliban identifies LGBTQI+ Afghans by gaining access to online networks; once they are identified, they are subject to an array of violent acts, including torture, sexual violence, forcible disappearance, threats to familiy members and neighbors, and execution. Media
AF-158 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Gender nonconforming individuals seeking to leave the country report that they are afraid to go to the country’s passport office or even pass through routine checkpoints on public roads for fear of being spotted by Taliban officials and subjected to violence. Media
AF-158 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members burn a gay Afghan man with boiling water while interrogating him. Media
AF-164 2021 Women Taliban members seize the house and business of a woman activist and NGO worker and file a false claim against her; she suspects these acts are in retaliation for her work helping women and girls launch small business initiatives. Media
AF-169 2023 Women After the Taliban's ban on women working for NGOs, male aid workers are denying women humanitarian assistance if they are not accompanied by a mahram. Media
AF-171 2023 LGBTQI+ persons, supporters Taliban members jail family members of a gay Afghan man so that he would turn himself into the Taliban for their release. Media
AF-172 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women Taliban members send death threats to a trans woman, which force her into hiding; Taliban members then find her, kidnap her and rape her repeatedly. Media
AF-174 2022 Women A woman commits suicide after the Taliban sentences her to death by stoning for running away from home to escape a forced marriage. Media
AF-176 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members drag a gay Afghan man out of his house, beat and behead him. His partner reports that the Taliban stated that they did this to set an example for other LGBTQI+ individuals. Media
AF-176 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A gay Afghan man who is on the Taliban's LGBTQI+ kill list spends months hiding in basements, ditches, deserted homes, the woods, and on rooftops. Media
AF-177 LGBTQI+ persons Trans Afghans are uniquely at risk for violence committed against them when trying to leave Afghanistan because they can be more easily identified by the Taliban as a result of gender markers on their identification documents and how those may or may not match up with their visual appearance and gender presentation. Media
AF-178 2022 Women The Taliban publicly flogged a woman for grocery shopping without a mahram. Media
AF-180 2022 Women Taliban members brutally beat women for traveling without a mahram. Media
AF-182 2022 Women, girls Taliban members regularly stop and harass group of women students who are travelling to school and ask why they are travelling without a mahram. NGO Report
AF-183 2022 Girls Taliban members beat a child for not having her face covered in her classroom. Government Report
AF-183 2022 Women After expelling women students from a university for protesting against the Taliban's policies, Taliban members threaten to retaliate against anyone who reports the expulsions to the media. Government Report
AF-183 2022 Women Taliban members sentence a woman to execution by being buried to the waist in a pit and then stoned to death for alleged adultery. Government Report
AF-184 2023 Women Taliban members prohibit women and girls' access to contraceptives. Media
AF-185 2022 Women, girls, supporters The Taliban orders punishments against male family members of women who do not cover their faces in public. Media
AF-188 2022 Women Taliban members force women teachers out of their offices at a school at gunpoint after the Taliban issues an edict prohibiting women and girls' secondary and higher education. Media
AF-193 2022 Women In October 2022, a Taliban whips women who were protesting their right to education and work in solidarity with women's protests in Iran. Media
AF-194 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members detain journalists who are covering a protest for women's right to education. Media
AF-198 2022 Women In August 2022, Taliban members target women activists at a protest and beat them with whips and rifle butts, threaten them, and detain them. Media
AF-199 2022 Women The Taliban orders women-owned bakeries to close. Media
AF-202 2023 Women A woman asks to continue working at a court despite the Taliban's ban on women's employment; Taliban members beat her with barbed wire and threatened her. Media
AF-202 2023 Women A woman who worked for the Attorney General's office prior to the Taliban's takeover is in hiding because many of the individuals she had prosecuted have joined the Taliban administration and she believes they are looking for retribution. Media
AF-206 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members publicly whip Afghan men accused of having gay sex. Media
AF-207 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members accuse a gay man of promoting gay sex for working in a health clinic that serves men who have sex with men; they beat and rape him. Media
AF-207 2021 LGBTQI+ persons, men, supporters Taliban members beat security guards of a health clinic that provided services to men who have sex with men. Media
AF-207 2021 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban's judiciary announces that individuals have been punished for homosexuality. Media
AF-212 2022 Women Taliban members threaten women who rented a house together to pursue their higher education online after the Taliban banned women from attending universities, telling them that women are not allowed to live together without a mahram. Media
AF-212 Women, supporters Taliban members threaten to revoke work permits for rental agencies that rent accomodations to women without a mahram. Media
AF-213 2022 Women A former woman judge is in hiding for fear of reprisals from the Taliban for her prior decisions relating to family, divorce, and criminal law. Media
AF-216 2022 Women Former women prosecutors are in hiding after recieving threats from Taliban members for prosecuting and convicting men for gender crimes, including rape and murder. Media
AF-216 2022 Women, supporters A former woman prosecutor who specialized in gender violence and violence against children is receiving repeated threats to herself and her family from both the Taliban authorities and people she formerly prosecuted who were released from prison by the Taliban. Media
AF-217 2023 Women The Taliban ban a woman ER doctor from laughing, speaking or looking at male colleagues. Her behavior is monitored by Taliban members through CCTV at the hospital. Media
AF-207 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Following a pattern of the Taliban threatening family members of LGBTQI+ people, a transman is severely beaten by his uncle who threatens to turn him in to the Taliban, knowing that they have been violently attacking LGBTQI+ people. Media
AF-220 2021 LGBTQI+ persons, women, supporters A lesbian woman and her father are repeatedly beaten and threatened by the Taliban after the woman's uncle, a religious leader allied with the Taliban, came to their house with several Taliban members to attempt to focibly marry her to a Taliban member. When the father refused, he is beaten and Taliban members break his arm. Taliban member return to the house several time and beat the woman and her father. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women, supporters Following a pattern of violence towards LGBGTQI+ people by the Taliabn, a man discovers that his wife, whom he wed through an arragned marriage, is intersex and beats her, deprives her of food, forces her to sleep in the cowshed, robs her, and threatens to report her to the Taliban. When her mother tries to intervene, he beats her as well. NGO Report
AF-220 2021 LGBTQI+ persons, women Taliban members stop a transwoman on the street because she does not have a mahram escorting her. When they hear her speak, they suspect she is trans and severely beat her. NGO Report
AF-220 2021 LGBTQI+ persons, women, supporters The Taliban raid a wedding and arrest a transwoman who is performing, as well as the hosts. The Taliban members beat them with whips, chains, and the butts of their guns. The Taliban then take the woman to a mosque where the mullah gives a sermon starting that people who enegage in homosexuality or wear gender non-confomring clothes are cursed. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women Taliban members stop a transwoman on the street, grab her, and refer to her with a derogatory term for transwomen. They then take her to a police station where the beat her, drag her on the floor, and whip her. Later, a Taliban member offers to let her go if she agrees to have sex with him. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women A trans woman and her friend agree to perform at a party, but when they arrive they realize it is a trap and the host takes them to the Taliban, where Taliban members take away the women's phones, bind their hands and beat them. The Taliban members release the trans woman after extracting a promise that she would stop wearing makeup and performing. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women Taliban members pull a transwoman out of a car at a checkpoint and interrogate her about her appearance. The Taliban members then cut her nails; shave her head, leaving her bleeding; and then beat her. NGO Report
AF-220 LGBTQI+ persons, men Taliban members beat a gay Afghan man several times because he shaves his beard. NGO Report
AF-220 LGBTQI+ persons, men Taliban members beat a group of gay and trans friends who were meeting at a restaurant. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, supporters Taliban members interrogate and beat a gay man who was selling items on the side of the road. They then take him to a police station where he is repeatedly threatened. When his famliy arrives in an attempt to get him released, Taliban members beat him in front of his children. After his eventual release, Taliban members continue to threaten him over the phone, NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, girls Taliban members detain a trans girl at a checkpoint and search her phone. They find photos of LGBTQI+ people and beat and berate her in an attempt to get her to reveal their location. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons, women, girls Taliban members raid a house where a transwomen and girls are present and severely beat one of the girls. NGO Report
AF-220 LGBTQI+ persons, women Taliban members arrest a trans woman, use dehumanizing language towards her and whip her. NGO Report
AF-220 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members sexually assault a gay man and subject him to electric shocks after he is arrested for dressing in a way that does not conform with the Taliban's dress codes. NGO Report
AF-220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A trans man is severely beaten by his uncle who threatens to take him to the Taliban so that they can publicly execute him to show others what happens to trans individuals (evidencing the Taliban's policy of execution of LGBTQI+ individuals). NGO Report
AF-220 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A trans man is being threatened by his family members who have joined the Taliban after the group's takeover of Afghanistan. NGO Report
AF-195 2023 Women, supporters Taliban members beat and arrest a professor who publicly protested the Taliban's ban on women attending university. Media
AF-221 2022 Women The Taliban's Ministry of Virtue and Vice summons male relatives of women accused of dress code violations and convinces them to enforace the Taliban's dress code policies against their familiy members. Media
AF-223 2022 Women, girls, supporters Taliban members brutally beat men who accompany women wearing colorful clothing, or without a face covering. UN Report
AF-224 2023 Women A Taliban cleric states that men are allowed to beat women who do not agree to dress up for their husbands, leave the house without their husband's permission, or do not pray. Media
AF-225 2022 Women, supporters Taliban members shut down a male tailor's store for a period because he disobeyed the their order in the region that male tailors may not make women's clothes. He is later arrested for speaking to a woman customer. Media
AF-226 2022 Women Men use the threat of reporting a woman to the Taliban to blackmail her into having sex with them because they got hold of an intimate picture she had shared with a man before the Taliban takeover in 2021. She is forced to go into hiding. Media
AF-226 2021 Women Women demonstraters at a protest for gender equality are imprisoned, tortured, and raped by Taliban members. After releasing the women, Taliban members warn them to stay silent or they will publicize videos of the rape, which would be a likely death sentence. Media
AF-226 Girls The Taliban allegedly keeps a list of unmarried girls, some as young at nine-years-old, and forces their fathers to marry them off to Taliban men. Media
AF-228 2022 Girls, supporters Taliban members severely beat the parents of a teenage girl who escapes their attempt to forcibly marry her because they will not provide any informaton about their daughter. The father is kipnapped and beaten so violently that his is not expected to survive. The mother, who was pregnant, was beaten so badly she had a miscarriage. Media
AF-232 2020 Women and girls In 2022, a video is releaased from 2020 showing Taliban members in Takhar province beating two women for being outside of their homes without a mahram. Media
AF-234 2023 Women A man with a history of extreme domestic violence is released from prison by the Taliban and then joins the Taliban. He proceeds to threaten his wife and incites other men released from prison by the Taliban to threaten her psychologist for protecting and supporting the victims of their violence. Media
AF-235 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members publicly flog people for 'moral crimes', including adultery, robbery and gay sex. Media
AF-236 2022 Women Taliban members insult and beat a woman and her familiy member for going to a Taliban judge to inquire about a divorce she was in the process of filing before the takeover as a result of extreme abuse by her husband. Media
AF-237 2021 Women Taliban judges are not recognizing divorces granted by the former government to women fleeing abuse. One woman started receiving threatening phone calls from her abusive ex-husband soon after the Taliban takeover. He informed her that Taliban members from her home village are helping him find her and seek revenge. Media
AF-242 2022 Women, girls The Taliban ban women and girls from going to gyms or to public parks. Media
AF-252 2022 Women, girls The Taliban ban women and girls from going to public baths. Media
AF-253 2022 Men The Taliban are enforcing a policy that require men to grow beards. Media
AF-259 2023 Women Taliban members are threatening midwives who share information about contraceptives and are ordering pharmacies to clear their shelves of all form of birth control medicines and devices. Media
AF-259 2023 Women Taliban members have told media outlets that contraceptive use and family planning is part of a western agenda. Media
AF-261 2022 Women, supporters Peaceful demonstrators, including women, who have been protesting for equal rights have been subjected to threats, intimidation, arrest and ill-treatment while in detention by Taliban members. UN Report
AF-265 2022 Women Taliban members retaliate against peaceful women protestors using tear gas, fire shots, and electric shocks. They also arbitrarily detain them and threaten to kill them, using gendered insults and suggesting that the West is paying them to protest. NGO Report
AF-267 2022 Women In Baghlan Province, in September 2022, Taliban members beat a group of women for shopping in a local market without a mahram. Media
AF-268 2022 Women A woman is charged with speaking in public to a man other than her mahram. She asserts that the allegation is untrue and the Taliban member accusing her is seeking revenge for refusing to marry his son. Nonetheless, she is given a trial without due process and then publicly lashed, sustaining multiple injuries. Media
AF-269 2023 Women Taliban members stop women who are in public without a mahram and frisk them. Women who object are threatened with arrest and imprisonment. Media
AF-281 2022 Women, supporters A woman protesting the Taliban's ban on women's education is threatened by a Taliban member. A man who was taking a video of the woman and supporting her protest was beaten by the Taliban member. Media
AF-282 2023 Women The Taliban ban women from going to restaurants. Media
AF-283 2022 Women, girls The Taliban issue a decree requiring women and girls to be fully covered to appear in public and states that the best way for women to stay in compliance with hijab is to stay at home. Media
AF-283 2022 Women, girls The Taliban justifies their restrictions on women's movements by blaming women for their failure to properly sex segregate and abide by the group's hijab policies. Media
AF-286 2023 Women The Taliban eliminates a source of income for many women by banning beauty salons for women. Media
AF-287 2023 Women, supporters Taliban members forcefully break up protests against the ban on beauty salons. Media
AF-289 2023 Women, girls The Taliban have barred healthcare workers from sharing statistics on the number of women who have taken their own lives. Media
AF-302 2023 Women Taliban members shoot and kill women who are detained on charges of 'moral corruption'. Media
AF-304 2021 Women, girls In August 2021 at the start of the Taliban takeover, Taliban members begin attempting to forcibly marry young girls in the areas they control. One mother reports a Taliban member coming to her house in an attempt to marry her teenage daughter stating: if a house has two daughters, at least one should be given in marriage to the Taliban. Media
AF-307 2022 Women, girls The Taliban flogs women for 'moral crimes' such as prostitution, running away from home, or having 'illegal relations'. Media
AF-309 2022 Supporters Taliban members beat men who participated in a university walk out in protest of the Taliban's ban on women attending higher education. Media
AF-310 2022 Women Taliban members arrest a women's rights activist and torture her using cables, pipes and whips while recording her. The activist was arrested because the Taliban believed she was organizing protests against the group's hijab requirements. Media
AF-311 2021 Women, girls, supporters In September 2021, Taliban members whip and beat women protesting the Taliban's all-male ministers cabinet. Taliban members also beat bystanders, including children and journalists covering the event. Both women protestors and journalists covering the protests are arrested and subject to incommunicado detention. Media
AF-314 2022 Women, supporters Dozens of protestors and their families are detained and forcibly disappeared by the Taliban. Media
AF-315 2021 Women Taliban members shoot and kill an Afghan woman for wearing tight clothing and not being accompanied by a mahram. Media
AF-316 2021 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban stop a man for dress code violations, search his phone and based on some photos in it, determine that he might be gay. They beat him and threaten to kill him. They eventually release him, warning him they will kill him if they ever find him out of compliance with the dress code or in possession of similar photographs. Media
AF-317 2021 LGBTQI+ persons Taliban members attack a gay human rights defender at a government building. They grab him; question why he is wearing clothing they deem out of compliance with the Taliban's dress code for men; slap, kick and beat him; and then throw scalding water at him that burns his chest. Media
AF-318 2021 LGBTQI+ persons A Taliban member stopped a gender non-conforming person on the street and beat them with a pipe, stating "[d]on't you know how to walk like a man?" Media
AF-319 2022 Women A Taliban member forcibly marries a female healthcare professional, threatening her family after their initial refusal. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women; Girls A 20 year old girl who is a student is forced to marry a member a Taliban member, under threat of death. NGO Report
AF-319 2021 Women An employee in the previous government working on women's affairs is arrested at midnight at her home and murdered, her body thrown into the street. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A nurse that worked at the hospital for many years is accused of prostitution, arrested, and tortured by the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A 19-year-old girl commits suicide when her father, a member of the Taliban, decides to force her to marry a friend after her school is closed. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A widow is murdered by members of the Taliban after she is asked by the Taliban to stop working on multiple occasions but she refused. NGO Report
AF-319 2021 Women; girls; LGBTQI+ persons Two girls are killed after being involved in women's freedom and equality work. The Taliban ordered them to stop "seducing other women" and when they did not cease work, they were kidnapped and two days later found dead. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A woman who is a former government worker in social affairs is murdered by the Taliban. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Girls In Faryab, A 16-year-old girl is kidnapped and two weeks later found dead, after she went to see whether her school was open or closed. NGO Report
AF-319 2023 Women A woman who worked for a foreign NGO is murdered by members of the Taliban for working for that organization. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A woman is raped by a Taliban member and becomes pregnant. She is then murdered by her father. NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Women A woman is murdered by her husband, who has become a Taliban member, after he is unsuccessful in preventing her from working at an I/NGO/ NGO Report
AF-319 2022 Girls In Nimroz, a ninth-grade girl goes to her school to see whether it is open. She is kidnapped in the school yard by a member of the Taliban and he rapes her inside the school. NGO Report
AF-319 2021 Women After the arrival of the Taliban, a woman goes to the new administration to apply for a job. She is raped and becomes pregnant. When the family tries to file an application against the perpetrator, the Taliban doesn't accept it and arrests the woman and holds her for a week with the baby. NGO Report
AF-320 2018 LGBTQI+ persons, women A queer woman working for an Afghanistan television network is asked by a Mullah to have a sexual relationship; when she declines, she is removed from her job. Media
AF-321 2024 LGBTQI+ persons The Supreme Court of the Taliban orders the flogging of four individuals on charges of sodomy and sentences them to eighteen months of imprisonment. Government Report
AF-324 2024 LGBTQI+ persons The Taliban Supreme Court announced that they had flogged four people for having same-sex relationships and then sentenced them to prison terms of one year or longer. Media
AF-326 2024 Women; Men The Taliban passes a set of "Vice and Virtue" laws, which codify increasingly stringent restrictions on behavior including forbiding women to raise their voice in public or to sing or read poetry aloud; forbidding unrleated women and men to look at each other; requiring women to fully cover themselves in front of non-Muslim women; ordering men to grow beards longer than a fist; and banning sodomy, "even with one's wife". In the weeks following the passage of these laws, new reports of policing the movement and behavior of women in public are reported across the country. Media
AF-327 2024 Women; Girls The UN Security Council releases a statement condemning the Taliban for "systemic gender discrimination and oppresion of women and girls in Afghanistan", inclduing the passage of the Vice and Virtue laws which they state "confirms and extends wide-ranging and far reaching restrictions on personal conduct and provides inspectors with broad of enforcement, thus deepening the already unacceptable restrictions on the enjoyment by all Afghans of human rights ansd fundamental freedoms. Government Report
AF-328 2024 Women; LGBTQ+ people The Taliban's Supreme Court announce that more than 63 people, including 14 women, were publicly flogged in northern Afghanistan after being convicted of crimes such as homosexuality, adultery, and other “immoral relations.” This is the first time the Taliban rulers flogged such a large group of Afghans in public since returning to power 2021. Media
AF-329 2022 Women; LGBTQ+ people Taliban leaders subject a group of cisgender women and girls and trans men to forced marriage with Taliban fighters. NGO Report
AF-330 2022 LGBTQ+ people The Taliban sexually humiliate a trans man at a checkpoint reportedly for being without a headscarf. NGO Report
Code Date Groups Summary Source
UK 016 2022 LGBTQI+ person Ukrainian soldiers subject a transgender man, with female identity documents, to invasive body searches and other degrading treatment. NGO Report
UK 019 2022 LGBTQI+ person Ukrainian soldiers detain a transgender woman attempting to leave the city. She has had her passport taken, refused a lawyer, and taken by force to the military enforcement office while being called homophobic slurs. Media
UK 020 2022 LGBTQI+ person Ukrainian soldiers undress and humiliate a transgender woman at the Ukrainian border misgendering her and not allowing her to leave the country. Media
UK 024 2022 LGBTQI+ persons; Supporters The Russian government creates a list of journalists, activists and LGBTQI+ rights advocates who could be killed or "sent to camps" after the invasion on the basis of their gender identity and expression. Media
UK 029 2022 Women; Supporters In a pattern of attacks on maternity hospitals, Russian forces bomb another maternity hospital and children's ward. Media
UK 029 2022 Women; Supporters Russian forces use an airstrike on another maternity ward within Ukraine. Media
UK 058 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A transgender woman is not allowed to leave Ukraine because of her male identification documents. She is subjected to hair pulling and sexual assault by border agents. Media
UK 058 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A transgender woman is not allowed to leave Ukraine and is separated from her family. Media
UK 058 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men Gay men are detained and assaulted by Ukrainian police. Media
UK 064 2022 Women; Girls UN High Commissioner reports 124 acts of conflict-related sexual violence across Ukraine perpetrated by Russian Forces, with women and girls constituting the majority of the survivors. UN Report
UK 067 2022 Women; Girls A fact finding mission reports 59 cases of conflict-related sexual violence occurring against women and girls perpetrated by Russian Forces. UN Report
UK 068 2022 Women A women is repeatedly raped and further tortured by a Russian soldier who captures her in the school her family had taken shelter in. NGO Report
UK 069 2022 Women A Ruasian soldier kidnaps, threatens and rapes a Ukranian woman. Media
UK 070 2022 Women A woman is killed by Russian Forces after being sexually abused and further tortured. Media
UK 073 2022 Women; Girls 25 women and girls are kept in a basement by Russian Forces and gang raped. Nine of the women became pregnant. Media
9 2022 Men Russian forces castrate a Ukrainian man who has been detained as a prisoner of war. NGO Report
UK 076 2022 Women Two Ukrainian women are raped by Russian soldiers occupying their village. Media
UK 087 2022 Women Women prisoners of war are subject to starvation, torture, and sexual humiliation by Russian Forces. Media
UK 089 2022 Girls A 4-year-old girl is sexually assaulted by Russian forces. UN Report
UK 090 2022 Women A Ukrainian woman is sexually assaulted by Russian Forces forces after they forced their way into her home. Media
UK 096 2022 Women; Men; Russian soldiers rape two women. Media
UK 097 2022 Women A human rights organization receives report of 17 cases of sexual violence committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, 16 of which were perpetrated against women or girls. NGO Report
UK 098 2022 Women Three women are found dead, their bodies naked and partially burned with evidence of sexual violence present. Media
UK 104 2022 Women A 75-year-old woman was tortured and raped in her home by Russian Forces. Media
UK 106 2022 Women Two women are raped by Russian soldiers occupying their home village. Media
UK 107 2022 Girls A 14-year-old girls is raped by five Russian soldiers occupying her village. Media
UK 107 2022 Women A 20-year old woman is gang-raped by three Russian soldiers occupying the city. Media
UK 108 2022 Women; Girls A young girl is gang-raped by Russian Forces while her village has been occupied. Media
UK 119 2022 Women Women are raped by Russian forces during their occupation and are forced to remain pregnant due to restrictive abortion laws in countries where they have escaped as refugees. Media
UK 126 2022 Women; Girls Russian soldiers gang-rape a 22-year-old Ukrainian woman, force her and her husband to have sex in front of them before raping their 4-year-old daughter. Media
UK 126A 2022 Women An 83-year-old woman is raped in front of her physically disabled husband. UN Report
UK 126A 2022 Women A 56-year-old has her home broken into by three Russian soldiers and is gang-raped by two of them. Her husband was tortured and executed. UN Report
UK 126A 2022 Women Russian soldiers rape and sexually assualt two women in one of their homes, after killing on of their husbands for trying to defend them. UN Report
UK 126A 2022 Women A 50-year-old woman is raped after Russian forces shot and killed her husband for trying to interfere. UN Report
UK 126A 2022 Women A Russian soldier breaks into a home and rapes a woman in front of her 3-year-old son. UN Report
UK 132 2022 Women A woman is forcibly stripped and her hair cut in a Russian filtration camp. Media
UK 020 2022 LGBTQI+ person A transgender woman is sexually assaulted at the border by guards who touched her breasts and checked her neck to see if she had an Adam's apple. The guards misgender her and do not allow her to leave. Media
UK 136 2022 LGBTQI+ persons An organization reports 10 identified cases of invading Russian soldiers carrying out targeted anti-gay attacks against Ukrainians including sexual violence, rape, imprisonment, assault, theft and attempted murder. Media
UK 136 2022 LGBTQI+ person; men Russian soldiers seach a man's phone at a checkpoint, determine that he is gay based on the search, and imprison him as a result; in prison, his sexual identity is disclosed to prison administration and he is subjected to daily sexual violence. Media
UK 136 2022 LGBTQI+ person; men A man perceived to be gay by Russion soldiers is subjected to homophobic slurs, forced to undress and threatened with rape, including a specific threat to turn him over to the Chechens, citing the anti-gay laws of the Chechen Republic. Media
UK 137 2022 LGBTQI+ person A Ukranian LGBTQI+ organization reports 62 cases of actions by Russian soldiers based on homophobia and transphobia, discrimination and other violations of rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity grounds. Media
UK 139 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men Two men perceived to be gay by Russian soldiers are detained for several days, during which they are tortured, abused, and threatened with rape because of their perceived sexual identity. NGO Report
UK 150 2022 Women, Girls A mother and daughter are raped by Russian soldiers invading their town. Media
UK 164 2022 Women A mother of four children is gang-raped by Russian soldiers. Media
UK 164 2022 Women A woman is raped repeatedly by a Russian soldier after her husband was killed. Media
UK 164 2022 Women A woman is raped by a Russian commander during the occupation of her village. Media
UK 167 2022 Women Women prisoners are subject to invasive examinations during admission procedures in the presence of male guards. They also are forced to undress and walk naked down the hallways, ordered to undress, bend over and touch their feet while guards beat their backs with batons. Media
UK 181 2022 Women Russian forces deport staff and patients of a maternity hospital. Approximately 70 people from this maternity hospital were sent to Russia, mostly women and children. This is a continued pattern of Ukrainians being sent to filtration camps and dispersed around Russia. Media
UK 185 2022 Women A woman is held captive by Russian soldiers, photographed naked, electrocuted and given little food and water. Media
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Women Russian soldiers break into the home of a lesbian couple, ask them in a derogatory way if they are lesbians, and then rape both of them. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men; Russian soldiers stop two men at a checkpoint, determine based on the contents of their phones that they are gay, and then beat and rob them. When the men begin to drive away, the soldiers shot at their vehicle. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men A man is called homophobic slurs, punched in the stomach, and kicked in the back by Russian soldiers. The soldiers attack him based on his appearance and manner of behavior. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men Ukranian men returning from an AIDS center with medicine are stopped by Russian soldiers and questioned about their medicine. The soldiers then call them homophobic slurs and beat them, threatening them with rape and other violence. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men A Ukrainian serviceman is stabbed repeatedly by a fellow serviceman who used homophobic slurs and stated that he took a weapon purposely to attack those in the LGBTQI+ community. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Women A transgender woman serving as a medic is raped by a fellow serviceman. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A group of armed persons in military uniform attack the office of the LGBTQI+ organization, smashing property and robbing and beating employees. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ persons A man is stopped at a checkpoint by Ukrainian paramilitary members where his phone is searched. Evidence that he is gay is found and he is beaten severely and threatened with murder. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Women; A lesbian woman is harassed and raped by a Ukrainian paramilitary member because of her sexual identity. NGO Report
UK 188 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Women A lesbian couple are beaten and robbed by local military members. One of the attackers said to one of the women, "Are you a man? Now we'll make a woman out of you." NGO Report
UK-189 2022 Girls A 12-year-old girl is raped causing injuries to her genitalia by three Russian soldiers who then kill her parents in front of her. Media
UK-189 2022 Women A woman is found dead in a cellar, naked with signs of sexual violence present. Media
UK-189 2022 Women Russian soldiers invade a Ukranian city and reportedly warn inhabitants to "hide their girls". Later, a women is found dead with lacerations; her family believes she was raped before being killed by Russian soldiers. Media
UK-189 2022 Women A widowed mother of two children is raped and killed. The Russian soldiers wrote in red lipstick on her vanity, "we buried her body in the garden." Media
UK-189 2022 Women A Russian soldier breaks into a local school where people are taking shelter and repeatedly rapes a woman. Media
UK-189 2022 Women A woman is gang-raped repeatedly after Russian soldiers shot her husband, calling him a fascist. Media
UK-189 2022 Women Three Russian soldiers rape a woman and her neighbor after killing the one woman's husband. Media
UK-191 2022 Women Russian forces bomb at least 10 perinatal centers and maternity hospitals as of May 15th, 2022, creating shortages and limiting access to critical maternal, sexual, and reproductive healthcare, including emergency obstetric care and essential care for survivors of sexual violence. NGO Report
UK-193 2022 Women; Girls Tweleve women and girls are raped by Russian soldiers. Media
UK-194 2022 Women Women are subject to detailed interrogations, body searches, and sometimes forced nudity and torture at Russian filtration checkpoints, a process that puts women and girls especially at high risk for sexual exploitation. UN Report
UK-200 2022 Women Russian soldiers rape a mother and a daughter during their occuption of their village. Media
UK-202 2022 Women; Girls Russian commanders encourage and order their troops to sexually assault Ukranian women as part of the humiliation tactics. A woman is raped by a Russian soldier with her child in the next room. Media
UK-208 2023 Women; Boys; Girls; Russia moves women and children to Russian soil to promote raising children as Russians and women marrying Russian men to have Russian children. Media
UK-209` 2022 Men; LGBTQI+ persons Russian forces detain a man on suspicion that he is transgender and subject him to forced nudity and psychological torture. Media
UK 218 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Russian parliament passes a new law that bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships" amongst all age groups, forcing LGBTQI+ persons to feel stigmatized and hide. Media
UK 219 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Men Russian soldiers lure out a gay Ukranian man under the guise that he is meeting someone for a date, then drug, beat, mock, film and rob him, putting a gun in his mouth. Media
UK 219 2022 LGBTQI+ person; Women Russian soldiers stop two women on the street, force them to undress, accuse them of being lesbians because of having short hair and tattoos, attempt to force them in the car, and then rob one of the women. Media
UK 220 2022 LGBTQI+ persons Russian government cites invasion of Ukraine as part of an operation to rid the the country of Satanic influences, which include LGBTQ+ people. Media
UK 225 2023 LGBTQI+ persons Ukraine border guards detain a transgender woman at the Hungarian border, claiming that she was dodging a draft and trying "to pretend to be a woman." Media
UK 243 2022 Men (targeted based on discrimination against women) A prisoner of war is detained by Russian forces. During detention, he is forced to pull his pants down and is asked if he is married. When he replies that he is, the Russian colonel replies, "Then someone bring me a mop. We'll turn you into a girl and send your wife the video." Media
UK 251 2022 Women Russian soldiers subject women prisoners to waterboarding, severe beatings, death threats, and sexual violence. Media
UK 253 2022 Women A Ukranian woman is detained by Russian forces, sexually assaulted, threatened with rape, and psychologicaly tortured. Media
UK 259 2022 Girls A 4-year-old girl is forced to perform oral sex on a Russian soldier. Media
UK 260 2022 Women; Girls; Between February and October 2022, 86 cases of sexual violence are documented, mostly perpetrated by Russian forces in various regions of the Ukraine and in penitentiary facilities in Russia. Documented acts include rape, gang rape, forced nudity, and forced stripping. NGO Report
UK 264 2022 Women; A woman is raped by a Russian soldier and told to be a "good girl." She is then beaten by another soldier. Media
UK 267 2022 Women; Women in a Russian detention facility are systematically beaten, tortured, starved, humilated, sexually assualted, and raped. Media
UK 274 2022 Women; A woman is sexually harassed, threatened with rape and tortured in a Russian torture chamber. Media
UK 282 2022 Women; Men; Russian soldiers threaten to rape a woman in front of her boyfriend because her boyfriend's father was a retired Ukranian military member. NGO Report
UK 283 2022 Women A pregnant woman is raped by a Russian soldier, causing the loss of her child. Media
UK 284 2022 Girls A 15 year old girl is sexually abused by Russian forces while staying in Russian-occuped territory; she reports Russian forces raped other girls while she was there. Media
UK-301 2022 Women A Russian unit commander rapes a mother in front of her 3-year-old son. Media
UK-302 2022 Women Another maternity hospital is bombed by Russian forces, adding to approximately 700 attacks on healthcare facilities, killing at least 200 people. NGO Report
UK-307 2022 Women; girls Russian solders sexually torture a 4 year old girl and her mother, sexually assulting the child and gang-raping the mother; the child's father is beaten and forced to watch. Media
UK-307 2022 Women; Girls Russian soldiers rape a pregnant woman and a 17-year old girl. Media
UK-307 2022 Women; Girls Russian soldiers gang-rape a 15 year old girl and her mother. Media
UK-307 2022 Women; Girls Russian forces loot and use sexual violence as a deliberate tactic in a village in Ukraine to terrorize the population. In interviews with survivors, it is reported that they singled women out beforehand, coordinated their actions and their roles to try to capture the village. Media
UK-308 2022-2023 Women; Girls Russian soldiers go house to house, raping women at gunpoint and torturing them, often threatening to kill the women or their families if they resist. Media
UK-309 2022 Women Russian forces break into a woman's home at night, detain her, repeatedly interrogate her, then force her to undress and beat her while she immobilized. Media
UK-312 2022 Women; Girls Russian solders kill men or threaten them with death for trying to protect their wives from rape. Media
UK-314 2023 Children Russian parliament passes a law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships", increasing stigma for LGBTQI+ people and forcing some into hiding. UN Report
Code Date Groups Summary Source
COL 001 2001 Indigenous persons; Women Paramilitary group members perpetrate a massacre in which they mutilate and kill Wayuú women. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women; Girls A FARC-EP man rapes Indigenous women. If they get pregnant, he forces them to get abortions. If the women refuse, he kills them. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women Paramilitary group members force Wayuú women into marriage. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women FARC-EP man rapes and kills Indigenous women. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women Paramilitary men rape four young women, cutting open the stomach of one of the women, who is pregnant, to extract the fetus. Government Report
COL 001 2007 Indigenous persons; Women FARC-EP men go looking for an Awá man. They find out he is not there. They rape his sisters. Government Report
COL 001 2005 Indigenous persons; Girls Security forces sexually assault a five-year-old Nukak girl. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Girls Security force members rape and force into sexual slavery four Nukak girls between ages 13 and 17-years-old. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women 100 paramilitary men invade a Wayuú community, destroy homes and isolate and rape women. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men rape and impale an Embera gay man because of his sexual orientation and force him to leave his community. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Women An armed member of a paramilitary group threatens to kill a transgender woman from the Embera Chamí people if she doesn't behave like a "real man", then forces her to leave the community. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Men A paramilitary member forces gay men into animal traps as a punishment for their sexual orientation; later they are forced to leave their community. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP members force gay men to leave their community unless they marry a woman. Government Report
COL 001 After 2016 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons; FARC-EP members threaten Indigenous LGBTQI+ leaders working to prevent young people from joining the guerrillas and create space for diverse gender identities; they are ultimately forced to flee the community. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons;Women Soldiers rape women and children; kill a woman in front of her children. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women Guerilla men rape a guerrilla Indigenous woman and force her to have five abortions in less than two years. The men also hit her and tortured her. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women; Girls Guerilla commanders rape girls when they first enter the group. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women Guerilla members force Indigenous women to get abortions if they get pregnant. Commanders punish men who get women from the Guerilla pregnant. Government Report
COL 001 1995 Afro-Colombian persons; Women A paramilitary group kill a woman leader promoting human rights for Black women. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitaries kill an Afro descendent woman and cut her stomach open. They leave her in the middle of the street. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary members force Black women they perceive as gossipers to sweep the entire village. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitaries call a Black woman who washes clothes for the guerilla a whistleblower. Paramilitary men put a grenade inside her mouth and kill her. Government Report
COL 001 2001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men cut open an Afro-Colombian pregnant woman's womb in front of her children. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women A paramilitary man burns a Black woman with a metal rod to "mark her as his property". Government Report
COL 001 1992 Afro-Colombian persons; Women FARC-EP men come looking for a man at his house. He was not home, so they rape his daughter-in-law and his daughter. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Guerilla men kidnap and enslave a woman because her father will not give them his calf. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Guerilla members rape a Black woman because she said they had mistreated her 60 year old father. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Armed actors force Afro-Colombian women into cleaning and cooking roles. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women An army's soldiers accuse a family of being collaborators with the guerilla and rape a young woman in front of her parents. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Girls Two members of the FARC-EP tie an Afro-Colombian girl to a tree and rape her. One of the men had previously harassed the girl before joining the FARC. He stated that he could now finally rape her because he had joined the guerilla. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Girls A guerilla fighter stalks and harasses an Afro-Colombian girl until she stops attending school to avoid him. Government Report
COL 001 2000 Afro-Colombian persons; Women FARC-EP men rape two Afro-Colombian women to make them leave their homes. Government Report
COL 001 2013 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men forcibly disappear a Palenquera woman. Her sister goes to the police, and they say it is better if they leave town because paramilitaries perceive them as "flies" (not liked or wanted) Government Report
COL 001 2000 Afro-Colombian persons; Girls Guerilla and paramilitary men use girls as informants. After they get the information they need, they kill them. Government Report
COL 001 1996 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men rape an Afro-Colombian woman whose partner was a police commander, then try to kill her so she cannot report what happened. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men limit Afro-Colombian women’s mobility and threaten them with death. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women; Girls Guerilla soldiers rape an Afro-Colombian girl and her mother after killing her father. They force them to leave their home. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Women Men from an armed group rape a lesbian Afro-Colombian woman to "fix" her. They force her and her family to leave their territory. Government Report
COL 001 1988 Afro-Colombian LGBTQI+ persons Army soldiers detain an Afro-Colombian gay man and his friends and present them to their commander as men from the guerilla. The commander permits them to do "whatever they want". The soldiers rape the detainees. Government Report
COL 001 Rrom persons; Women Armed actors detain Rrom women, accuse them of being informants for the enemy, and force them to do hand readings with no pay. Government Report
COL 001 1992 LGBTQI+ persons Nine or ten FARC-EP men threaten and rape a gay man, noting that he deserves it for being gay. Government Report
COL 001 2002 Women FARC-EP soldiers, including one woman, force entry into a woman's house where they force her to undress, rape her, hit her, and impale her with a wooden stick. Government Report
COL 001 1997 Women A paramilitary man hits and rapes a women he encounters walking near the road when she refuses to get into his car. Government Report
COL 001 1990-2000 Women Men from a paramilitary group take the FARC-EP commander's wife and cut her breasts in front of the whole town. Government Report
COL 001 Girls Men from an armed group kidnap two girls, sexually enslave them for more than a month, then leave them bound in an abandoned barn. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women A man from an armed group sexually enslaves a Nukak woman and forces her to do housework and work in coca plantations. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Men; Women; Members of the guerrilla sexually abuse and rape two transgender women and two gay men. Government Report
COL 001 Women FARC-EP commanders force women within the ranks to take hormonal birth control. Government Report
COL 001 1979 Men Army men rape a peasant leader. They make a dog rape him to defile his masculinity. Government Report
COL 001 1990 Women A women human rights defender is raped by members of the intelligence agency and soldiers, then imprisoned on chages of being part of a guerillla. Government Report
COL 001 2000 Women Men sexually assault sex workers after FARC-EP declares "zero prostitutes, zero drugs". Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Men from armed groups rape women who belong to an Afro-Colombian organization to protect their children from being recruited. Government Report
COL 001 2001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women A man from an armed group harasses and sexually assualts a lebsbian to "correct" her sexuality, then forces her and her family to leave town. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men force a Black woman to perform domestic labor and sexually harass her, citing her race as a reason for this treatment. Government Report
COL 001 1993-1995 Women A paramilitary commander forces a woman to perform domestic labor for the group and does not allow her to take care of her children. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitary men force a woman to perform free domestic labor for for their group for over 20 years as a punishment to her husband. Government Report
COL 001 2000-2004 Women FARC-EP men force two women to host them and cook for them in their houses. Government Report
COL 001 2009 Afro-Colombian persons; Women FARC-EP men force Afro-Colombian women into unpaid domestic labor and sexually harrass them. Government Report
COL 001 1999-2000 Women A paramilitary group confines an entire town, forcing women into cooking. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men use gay men as couriers because they believe the police would not inspect them. Government Report
COL 001 1998 Girls FARC-EP members recruit a 14 year old girl; during her time with them, she is forced to get an abortion. When she tries to escape, she is found and sentenced to two years of captivity and forced domestic labor. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons Men from an armed group torture an Indigenous woman for being a lesbian, then force her to leave her land. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ Persons Men from an armed group rape a Black lesbian and her partner to "correct" their sexual orientation. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary man rapes a transgender man, screaming "Men have a penis!" while impaling him. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men detain an Afro-Colombian transgender women, singling her out from the other transgender women who were white, force her to undress, and mock and humilate her because she has not finished her transition. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men, with the help of the police, kill a transgender woman. They leave her body on the street for more than 24 hours for everyone to see. Government Report
COL 001 2019 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons Men from an armed group torture a Black transgender woman for several days and then kill her by beating her with rocks. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary commander orders the enforced disappearance of a gay man who was part of the group after some group members reported seeing him going into other men's tents. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men kill the two openly gay men in town. They use this to warn other LGBTQI+ people to leave the town. Government Report
COL 001 Women and LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary man kills and forcibly disappears gay men, lesbians, and female sex workers. Government Report
COL 001 Women An armed group kidnaps a woman and rapes her. When her father comes looking for her, they kill him in front of her. Government Report
COL 001 1983 Girls Men from an armed group kipnap and rape a women because her father owed money; she becomes pregnant. Government Report
COL 001 2003 Women Paramilitary men kidnap, detain and rape a women who leads an organization that advocates for the rights of Indigenous women. Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men accuse a gay man of being a gossiper because of his sexual orientation and torture him with an electric cable; they later call a meeting to issue an order to community members that "men should behave like men". Government Report
COL 001 1980's LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men shoot a gay man in the head for being homosexual. Later, seven men rape him as a punishment. Government Report
COL 001 Girls FARC-EP members rape a girl and force her family into leaving their village. Government Report
COL 001 2017 Women A FARC-EP commander rapes a woman who managed to get her younger sister out of being recruited by the guerilla. Government Report
COL 001 1989 Indigenous persons; Boys FARC-EP recruits an Indigenous boy. They blindfold him while several men rape him. Government Report
COL 001 Girls A FARC-EP commander recruits and rapes a 12 year old girl; he forces her and other girls to use contraception. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary threatens a lesbian couple with death if one of the women does not serve as a courier as punishment for living as a couple; the woman is forced to perform the work, which includes transporting guns and corpses. Government Report
COL 001 Women; Girls Men from paramilitary groups committed acts of sexual violence, such as rape, sexual harassment, forced pregnancy, and forced nudity, against women and girls from the Chimborazo peasant community. They used sexual violence as a tool to 'empty the land' and gain territorial control in strategic regions. Government Report
COL 001 Women FARC-EP men kidnap a woman riding her car with her husband and child. The men rape her during retention. Government Report
COL 001 2002 Women A paramilitary commander rapes a woman and slits her throat. Government Report
COL 001 2001 Women; Girls Paramilitary men rape, dismember, kill, and bury the naked bodies of four sisters in a common grave. Government Report
COL 001 2011 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitaries torture a gay man. They castrate him, burn his face with acid, and bury him in a dress. Government Report
COL 001 2003 Girls A paramilitary man forces underage girls to compete in a beauty pageant and rapes some of them. Government Report
COL 001 2003 Women; LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary man forces 16 gay men and lesbians to fight each other in a boxing ring. Government Report
COL 001 2012 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men rape a lesbian to "correct" her sexual orientation under her father's authorization. Government Report
COL 001 2000 Women; Girls; Men Paramilitary men, under the commander’s order, rape 29 people, including girls, women, and men, to frighten people into not requesting 675 hectares of land from the authorities. Government Report
COL 001 2005 Women Paramilitary men rape and sexually enslave women who work on community programs to resist forced displacement. Government Report
COL 001 2003 Indigenous persons; Women The daughter of an Indigenous woman who leads a women's organization is raped and killed by paramilitary men; when her mother searches for her body, she is kidnapped by paramilitary men and later tortured and questioned about her NGO. Government Report
COL 001 Girls A security forces soldier harrassed two sisters as they traveled to school and in their home, forcing their mother to leave town to protect her daughters from him. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women An army soldier enters a home that soldiers use to wash their clothes, hits the woman who owns the house with his gun, and rapes her. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Women; Girls Army soldiers enter a house and accuse the women of being part of the guerrilla. The soldiers rape all of the women, including a girl and her grandmother. Government Report
COL 001 Women Four paramilitary men kidnap a woman sellling juices on the road, hold her for 3 days during which she is raped by several men, release her, and then come to her home and rape her again. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitaries enslave an Afro-Colombian woman after killing her husband. They force her to wash their blood-stained clothes and to have sex with them, referring to her as "black slave". Government Report
COL 001 90s Afro-Colombian persons; Women Members of an armed group enslave an Afro-Colombian woman to do domestic labor for a a period of over three years. Government Report
COL 001 2002 Afro-Colombian persons; Women A paramilitary forces an Afro-Colombian woman to particpate in boxing matches with other women; afterwards, another paramilitary man begins to go to her house to rape her on a regular basis. Government Report
COL 001 2012 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Men from the guerilla kidnap an Afro-Colombian woman working at a health center after she agrees to treat a wounded man from the FARC-EP. They force her to treat other wounded men in their camp and sexually enslave her for a period of more than five years. Government Report
COL 001 Women Members of an opposing armed group kill the female partners of two members of the guerilla, impaling them and cutting off their breasts. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitaries rape a woman in her home and stab her in the back with a knife. After killing her husband for trying to defend her, members of the group return to her home and threaten to kill her and her children. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women A paramilitary commander ties a woman to a tree and rapes her at gunpoint, threatening to cut off her tongue if she screams. Government Report
COL 001 1996 Girls A FARC-EP man drugs and kidnaps a 13 year old girl after harassing her on the way to school. He forces her into a sexual relationship and she becomes pregnant. When he finds out, he rapes her, hits her in the stomach until she bleeds, and forces a nurse to perform an abortion on her. Government Report
COL 001 1996 Indigenous persons; Girls A paramilitary man kidnaps an Indigenous girl and rapes her, telling her he will kill her family if she tells anyone about the incident. Government Report
COL 001 Afro-Colombian persons; Girls Paramilitary men rape a thirteen-year-old girl by going to ther house and taking her away from her mother. Government Report
COL 001 2000-2004 Women Paramilitaries come into people's houses and rape women in the middle of the night, forcing their husbands to watch. One woman gets pregnant. The paramilitary man compels her to have the child. Government Report
COL 001 1997 Indigenous persons; Women In 1997, during the Mapiripan Massacre, paramilitary soldiers enter the home of an Indigenous woman, stab her in the breasts, legs, back, and vagina, and rape her. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Girls A paramilitary commander is known for raping dozens of girls to have a child with them while maintaining his territory. Government Report
COL 001 1998 Girls Paramilitary men come into people's homes at midnight and kidnap girls. In one instance, they accuse a 12 year old girl of being a guerilla man's duaghter, burn her with a cigarette, and rape her. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitary men kill a female prosecutor who "made a mistake". The men take her, rape her, and beat her to death. They eat her body and leave the head impaled on a stick. Government Report
COL 001 2007 Women FARC-EP men rape a woman and tell her they do so to show the army who is controlling that area. Government Report
COL 001 2010 Women Army soldiers talk to a woman. FARC-EP see her, take her, rape her and kill her. They leave her naked body near a road. Government Report
COL 001 2010 Girls FARC-EP men get a 16-year-old drunk. They take her near a river, rape her, and cut off her breasts. Government Report
COL 001 Women FARC-EP men rape a woman when she opposes being recruited. They force her children to watch. Government Report
COL 001 2002 Women FARC-EP men come to a woman's house on several occasions. When they realize she is alone, one of the commanders rapes her and threatens to kill her husband if she reports the incident. Government Report
COL 001 2006-2010 Women FARC-EP men stop a bus and force all the women on the bus to walk to a camp. A commander then forces them to stand in a line and orders the soldiers to choose women to rape. Several women are raped. Government Report
COL 001 Women ELN men accuse a woman of collaborating with the enemy. While the trial occurs, they force her to live with a man from the group for two years and serve as a wife to him. He forces her to do housework and prohibits any form of contraception. She gets a hormonal implant as contraception. When the man finds out, he hits her and takes the implant out of her arm. Government Report
COL 001 2000 Girls ELN men recruit a 13 year old girl. When she agrees to join, she is instead given to a commander who sexually enslaves her. Government Report
COL 001 1978-1982 Women Army soldiers detain and torture a former combatant from the guerilla who is a woman. The torture includes pinching her breasts, impaling her with a stick, and hitting her genitials with a wet towel. Government Report
COL 001 1990 Women FARC-EP members recruit a thirteen-year-old girl. At an army checkpoint, they detain her for belonging to the armed group. Soldiers tie her but she escapes. The soldiers get her, and many of them rape her. They also burn her legs with gasoline. Government Report
COL 001 1990 Women A human rights activist who particiaptes in revolutionary political organizations is detained at the orders of a judge from the military criminal justice system. Soldiers detain, torture, and rape her during questioning. Government Report
COL 001 Women Security force members enter a pregnant woman's house and question her about the location of camps and the names of commanders for the guerilla. When she does not know, more than six men rape her, cut her womb, and kill the baby. Government Report
COL 001 2003 Women Four men from a paramilitary group kidnap three sex workers, tie them to a tree and rape them. When they notice one of the women is pregnant, they hit her in the stomach and said she was going to lose the baby. The leave her and one of the other workers tied to a tree and take the other one with them. Government Report
COL 001 1999 Women FARC-EP men take eight young sex workers against their will to one of their camps where they are raped by more than 30 men. One women resists and is stabed to death in front of the others. Government Report
COL 001 2008 Women Paramilitary men come into a bar and rape all the sex workers in that place. Government Report
COL 001 2001 Women Paramilitary men have permission from their commanders to take sex workers against their will to the camps. When sex workers have HIV, the men torture them and lock them up in dungeons. Government Report
COL 001 90s Women; LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men systemically kill people who go against gender norms - including gay people and sex workers - because they "make them feel uncomfortable". In addition to the above, they also consider female gossipers and women who steal to be military targets for violating gender norms. Government Report
COL 001 2003-2004 Women Paramilitary men rape sex workers, cutting off their hair and burning their genitals with acid. Some of them are found dead with their throats slit. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitary men kill sex workers with any STD because it serves the "common interest". They convince health providers to call them whenever a sex worker tests positive for an STD and order them to inform the commanders before telling the woman. Sometimes, the commanders order the woman's death. Government Report
COL 001 Women Army officials forcibly disappear two sex workers. Their friends raise concerns about their disappearance. The army then claims that the sex workers were combat casualties. Government Report
COL 001 Girls A paramilitary man recruits a 14-year-old girl with promises of a better life. He forces her into sexual slavery and threatens her with being sent far away when she tries to leave. Government Report
COL 001 2005 Indigenous persons; Women Members of an armed group rape more than 15 elderly Indigenous women. Government Report
COL 001 2001 Women; Girls Paramilitary men kidnap a woman and her twelve-year-old sister. They sexually enslave them for three days. Government Report
COL 001 1989 Women FARC-EP men rape a woman and threaten her if she doesn't leave town. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitaries force the wives of the men they plan to kill to undress and lie down, giving any member of the paramilitary permission to rape them. They also cut the women's hair with machetes. Government Report
COL 001 1992 Women A soldier comes to a woman's house, asking for a glass of water. When she goes to the kitchen, the soldier follows her and rapes her. Government Report
COL 001 1997 Women FARC-EP men force a peasant woman and her female family members into sexual slavery. Government Report
COL 001 2021 Women Dissidents of the FARC-EP kill at least 16 women, including a prosecutor who investigates femicides in the region. Government Report
COL 001 1/21/2001 LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men force a man to leave his town because he refuses to dress "as a man". Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Armed men capture a woman who is a lesbian, tie her down, touch her genitals without her consent, call her a "dirty lesbian", threaten to wait for her girlfriend to arrive and kill her, and hit her in the head, leaving her unconscious. Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Members of the security forces falsely accuse a transgender woman of being a FARC-EP commander. She is sent to prison and raped by the guards. Government Report
COL 001 2000s LGBTQI+ persons A member of the FARC-EP forces his transgender nephew to work as an informant, rapes him, and threatens to kills his family. In a separate incident years later, paramilitary men see him in a bar with his girlfriend and call a meeting to tell the community they didn't want anyone of "his kind." Government Report
COL 001 1989 LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men kidnap a gay man and force him to work as a hairdresser. They repeatedly rape him, telling him that this would make him more of a man. Government Report
COL 001 1993 LGBTQI+ persons An unidentified armed group assassinates the leader of an LGBTQI+ liberation movement. His family reports he was murdered during a "social cleansing." Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitaries kill a leader from the LGBTQI+ community; his friends note that people perceived to be gay men are targeted for wearing earrings, having long hair, or having painted nails. Government Report
COL 001 80s LGBTQI+ persons A police division arrests a gay man and locks him up in the dungeon. He was taken into custody 25 times for being gay. Government Report
COL 001 1985 LGBTQI+ persons Police officers beat, shoot, and murder LGBTQI+ people. A transgender woman says that one of the commanders orders "social cleaning operations" to rid the city of LGBTQI+ people. Government Report
COL 001 2016 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men rape a gay man. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men beat and torture three men for being gay. Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary commander forcibly disappears a gay man who was alledegly a thief and a drug dealer. Government Report
COL 001 2004 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men kill a man. The Justicia y Paz tribunal determined the victim was killed because of his sexual orientation. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons An unidentified armed group murders a gay couple during a "social cleaning operation." Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men detain a father and son, accusing them of being informants for the guerilla; they rape the son, whom they presue to be gay, to "teach him how to be a man". Government Report
COL 001 2005 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men rape a bisexual boy, kill his father and grandfather, and rape female members of the family. Government Report
COL 001 2001 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls A paramilitary commander raped a transgender woman when she was a child while other men watched. After she reported the incident, she was foribly displaced. Government Report
COL 001 2012 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP men rape a lesbian while telling her that this is the only way for her to become a real woman. Government Report
COL 001 2004-2005 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls A male member of the FARC-EP tortures and rapes a 10 year old transgender girl, threatening to kill her because the armed group didn't want more "fags" in town. Government Report
COL 001 2010 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Members of a paramilitary group forcibly disappeared a man who was part of the armed group because they found out he was gay. They did the same to his partner. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons, Girls A paramilitary group forcibly recruits a transgender girl. They tell her they are recruiting her to turn her into a man. The commander rapes her, and then other members of the group follow suit. Government Report
COL 001 1997 Girls Men from an armed group kidnap a 12-year-old girl and lock her up in a room while several men rape her. She gets pregnant and is forced to have an abortion. Government Report
COL 001 2010 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men take a gay Black man as a sexual slave. Every man in the group who wants to rape him, can. They also force him to cook and clean for them. Government Report
COL 001 1995 LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men force a gay man to dig and build roads while wearing a poster that says "because I am a fag." Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons Men from the police and paramilitary groups force gay men to perform oral sex on them. Government Report
COL 001 2001-2004 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons Members of the police take gay men to the police station and rape them. According to one of the victims, an Afro-Colombian bisexual activist, the police commander allows it to happen and "plays dumb." Government Report
COL 001 2001-2007 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men regularly go to the homes of transgender women to rape them. They threaten to kill them in "social cleaning operations" if they resist. Government Report
COL 001 2004 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Paramilitary men intercept a gay man leaving a bar. They rape him and force him to perform oral sex. Government Report
COL 001 2005 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Paramilitary men approach an LGBTQI+ person who works with children. They tell him he has to leave town or they will kill him, as they don’t want him to "infect" the children. Government Report
COL 001 2000s LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Paramilitary men kidnap a boy who is gay; six men from the group rape him and insult him for his sexual orientation. Then then throw him by the side of the road. Government Report
COL 001 1991-1994 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls A 12 year old girl who is is a lesbian is raped by a group of FARC-EP men that includes her uncle. In the coming years, they rape her several more times. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women A guerrilla man forces a transgender woman to work for the armed group by "running errands," on the belief that police do not target people who are gay. Government Report
COL 001 2003 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys FARC-EP men rape a 12 year old gay boy in his home, telling him they are singling him out from the oither members of his household because he is gay. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls A paramilitary man rapes a transgender adolescent. When she runs screaming for help, he sends two men after her to find her and kill her. She ultimately escapes and moves to another town. Government Report
COL 001 1997 LGBTQI+ persons; Women A paramilitary man questions a woman about why she dresses a certain way. When she answers that it is because she is a lesbian, he rapes her. Government Report
COL 001 1999 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons Three paramilitary men take a Black gay man from a party and upon finding out that he is gay, make him perform oral sex on them and rape him. They then force him to flee town under threat of death. Government Report
COL 001 2015 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP mean kidnap a woman who is involved in politics; when they discover she is a lesbian, they rape her and tell here she is "too pretty to be with women". After her release, they continue to threatren her until she ultimately forced to leave town. Government Report
COL 001 1987 LGBTQI+ persons Policemen and Paramilitary go to an area where sex work takes place; they fire upon many of the transgender sex workers, killing some and injuring others. Government Report
COL 001 1994 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Policemen torture, kill and dismember three transgender women. The women are buried by their friends and there are no police records. Government Report
COL 001 1992 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Policemen rape a transgender woman when she is leaving a nightclub. Government Report
COL 001 2008 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men invite a man to a party and rape him when they find out he is gay. Government Report
COL 001 2011 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Men from a post-demobilized paramilitary group torture and rape a group of gay men by a river. Government Report
COL 001 2011 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Five or six men from a paramilitary group torture and rape a gay man, insulting him because of his sexual orientation. Government Report
COL 001 2013 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Three men from a paramilitary group rape a gay boy in his home because they think he is too feminine and not a "real man". Government Report
COL 001 2014 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men rape an Afro-Colombian lesbian and two gay men; the woman reports that the insulted her for being both Black and gay. Government Report
COL 001 2008-2016 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls Two paramilitary men approach and rape a 16 year old lesbian after seeing her kiss her partner weeks earlier. They threaten to kill her and her family if she reports the incident. Although she does not report it, they kill her father. Government Report
COL 001 2008-2016 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Two Paramilitary men rape a 14-year-old gay Afro-Colombian boy. While they rape him, they tell him they are teaching him how to be a man. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP men threaten a lesbian woman, due to her sexual orientation and force her to leave her town. Government Report
COL 001 90s LGBTQI+ persons; Boys A guerrilla commander convinces a mother to turn her 11 year old son over the armed group to convert him into a "macho" man; they boy is presumed to be gay. Government Report
COL 001 2002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men cut off a transgender woman's breasts to verify that they are real. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men detain a transgender woman. They force her to get in a truck outside the town. They rape and stab her. Government Report
COL 001 1995 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Paramilitary men slaughter a family, singling a gay adolsecent out for additional torture including cutting his long hair and toning off his nails. They then burn him and throw him into a canal. He survives. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP men force a transgender woman to undress. They hit her, and three men rape her. They infect her with herpes. Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men kidnap a gay man. They enslave him. When they let him go, he has to leave the town because there is a rumor he is working for the paramilitaries. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys A FARC-EP commander forces gay adolescents to be informers for the group. The commander believes gay young men are not noticed and get more information. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men enslave a gay man, forcing him to cut the hair of the group's soldiers for years. Government Report
COL 001 1996 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP men threaten to kill a nurse who is lesbian because they do not want LGBTQI+ people in town; she is forced to flee, with the help of the doctors at the hospital where she works. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men hit a gay man with a tree branch with thorns. One man rapes him. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls Paramilitary men kill a 13-year-old lesbian girl. Due to this, all of her friends with diverse sexual orientations leave the city. Government Report
COL 001 1999 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Paramilitary men burn a gay man alive because of his sexual orientation. Government Report
COL 001 2002 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls Paramilitary men murder two 14-year-old transgender girls. They shoot them and then forcibly disappear their bodies by throwing them into the river. Government Report
COL 001 1998 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men kill a gay man, following the commander’s order to kill all gay people. Government Report
COL 001 2000 LGBTQI+ persons A Paramilitary commander forces a gay man to serve as an informant as he thinks gay people are gossipers. For five years, the man reports incidents in town under the commander's threat. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons A high-ranking member of the army forces several gay men into a truck. He takes them outside the city and tells his subordinates that they can do whatever they want with the gay men. The soldiers rape all of them and force them to engage in oral sex. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Army soldiers stop a group of men on the street, asking for their identification. When the men say they are dancers, the soldiers assume they are gay and hit them with sticks and rocks. They then present them to their superiors, claiming that they are members of the guerrilla. When the men deny it, the commander gives them five minutes to leave and forbids them to tell anyone what happened. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons A policeman stops a man wearing a ballet truss and dancing shoes. He asks if the man is gay. The man replies that he is gay and the police officer detains, rapes him, and forces him into oral sex. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Army commanders order their soldiers to detain gay people, put them in a truck, and take them outside the town to torture them. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men sexually assault a gay man. They say the assault is his punishment for being gay and that all gay men deserve to die. Government Report
COL 001 90s LGBTQI+ persons; Women Members of the security forces commit sexual violence against a transgender woman as a punishment. She leaves the country. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Policemen detain a transgender woman and subject her to whipping as a punishment for her gender identity. She tries to report the incident to the authorities. They refuse to take her report. Government Report
COL 001 2006 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Men from an unidentified armed group rape a 12-year-old boy who is gay for being too feminine. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men force a gay and transgender woman to leave her town, ordering her to behave like a "real man." Government Report
COL 001 2016 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men kidnap a transgender individual. They take them outside town, torture them for "dressing as a woman," and cut their long hair. Government Report
COL 001 2012-2019 LGBTQI+ persons; FARC-EP men threaten a woman for coming out publicly as transgender - the first person to do so in her town. They force her to hide her identity until she eventually leaves the town. Government Report
COL 001 2013 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men forcibly displace six young Indigenous men because of their sexual orientation. One of them returns to the reservation and commits suicide due to the ongoing threats he suffers. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men threaten a lesbian woman who is an activist for LGBTQI+ rights and the defense of the territory. They force her to leave the town. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons A commander from a paramilitary group forcibly displaces a man after learning that he is gay. Government Report
COL 001 2013 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men rape a lesbian woman and rape and kill her partner. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Security forces torture a transgender woman when she leaves a nightclub. They stab her in the stomach and the breast. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Members of the FARC-EP rape a transgender man. He gets pregnant. As he cannot get an abortion and he has the baby against his will. Government Report
COL 001 2013 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men rape two lesbian women. One of the women is infected with a sexually transmitted disease and becomes infertile as a result of the treatment. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men rape a gay man. He gets infected with HIV. Government Report
COL 001 Girls The FARC-EP recruit a 12 year old girl and force her to have an IUD inserted. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; Girls The FARC-EP men recruit an 11-year-old Indigenous girl. They force her to insert contraception in the presence of one of the top leaders of the armed group. Government Report
COL 001 Girls FARC-EP men recruit a 12 year old girl and rape her. She becomes pregnant and they perform an abortion on her without her consent or understanding what was happening. She experiences three more forced abortions over the next 7 years. Government Report
COL 001 Girls Paramilitary men recruit girls as young as 13 and require them to dress provocatively to "look like prostitutes". They use the girls as "bait" to recruit other members, distract people in a town, or extract information. Government Report
COL 001 Girls Paramilitary men recruit a young girl and forcibly tattoo her with the alias of her "compañero" (the man in the paramilitary ranks who OKs her as a partner). Government Report
COL 001 Girls Paramilitary commanders force girls in their group to marry them. They say: "You have to be with me, and if not, you die." Government Report
COL 001 1998 Girls Paramilitary men recruit a young girl, convince her she is pregnant, beat her, and hit her on the stomach with a stick to make her believe she will lose the baby. Later, she is sexually enslaved by a new commander. Government Report
COL 001 Girls FARC-EP commanders force FARC-EP women to be their girlfriends or wives. If they refuse, they are humiliated, insulted, and punished by being given physicially demanding or difficult tasks to perform. Government Report
COL 001 Girls A women is continuously abused physcially, sexually and psychologically by members of a guerrilla group. She is regularly raped, beaten, forced to perform domestic labor, and forced to take contraceptive pills. Government Report
COL 001 Women Paramilitary men recruit and then rape a woman, leaving her unconscious for fifteen days. They retain her for six months, during with they drug her, rape her, and prohibit her from speaking. Government Report
COL 001 2000-2004 Girls Paramilitary men rape a sixteen-year-old and force her into sexual slavery. Government Report
COL 001 2000 Women Paramilitary men rape and torture the women they find in a town. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; girl A man from FARC-EP sexually harasses a 13-year-old Indigenous girl. She decides to leave her town. Government Report
COL 001 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men force a gay activist who provides education on sexual and reproductive rights to leave town. Government Report
COL 001 Indigenous persons; LGBTQI+ persons A FARC-EP commander calls a meeting to "eradicate homosexual disease." He forces LGBTQI+ Indigenous people to leave their territories because he considers them sick. Government Report
COL 001 Rrom persons; Women A man from ELN rapes a woman. He hits and tortures her. Government Report
COL 001 Girls Paramilitary men forcibly recruit girls to commit sexual violence against them and to use them for logistics purposes. Government Report
COL 001 Girls Paramilitary men rape girls and force them to have children if they get pregnant. When the children are born, people in the community call them "paraquitos" (little paramilitary). Government Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men threaten a gay man, issuing him a pamphelet that gives him 12 hours to leave the territory, uses derogatory langauge against him for being gay, and threatens to give his severed head to his mother. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men forcibly displace a gay man after his sexual orientation is disclosed to them by members of the community who consider him "dangerous" because of his sexual orientation. NGO Report
COL002 2016 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men threaten a transgender woman. She changes her address several times to protect herself. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men come to a gay man's house with the intent of killing him because he is corrupting the children with his sexual orientation. They torture him, but he manages to escape. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men prohibit a gay man from accessing public spaces because he violates gender norms. NGO Report
COL002 Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Men from an unidentified armed group search out a gay Afro-Colombian boy at his home and rape him; days later, two other men come by and rape him for being "too feminine". NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men forcibly displace gay individuals from their territory. They threaten them with pamphlets and loot their homes. NGO Report
COL002 2000 LGBTQI+ persons; Women A paramilitary group sends a lesbian woman a pamphlet with her name on it. It states that lesbians are a bad example for children and that they have 24 hours to leave the town. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men force transgender women to stay in "tolerance zones". If they leave the permitted areas, the armed group will kill them. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Three Paramilitary men go to a lesbian's house and rape her. They tie her to a bed, insult her, kick her, and spit in her face. They tell her they do it because she is a lesbian. NGO Report
COL002 2002 LGBTQI+ persons; Men Paramilitary men kidnap a gay man and proceed to sexually assault him with a candle and a stick while also hitting him with wooden planks. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Policemen imprison a lesbian woman in the police station for holding hands with another woman. The police commander ties her to a pole with an anthill. NGO Report
COL002 1998 LGBTQI+ persons Police detain people with diverse sexual and gender identities, forcing those who identify as men to fight them and raping those perceived as women. NGO Report
COL002 1994-2000 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Policemen and Army members torture transgender women by whipping them, pouring ice water on them, and raping them. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women FARC-EP men threaten four lesbian women who meet up regularly. The men send them text messages with their names, saying they have 24 hours to leave town because "they don't agree with their sexual orientation." NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men forcibly displace a gay man, telling him he doesn't serve their cause. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons A man from FARC-EP goes to a salon to look for a gay hairdresser. He tells the hairdresser that he has to leave town before the monthly review and that "his days are numbered." NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; FARC-EP members distribute pamphelets all over town, starting their intention to kill all LGBTQI+ people. A lesbian woman confines herself in her house for 20 days because she does not have enough money to leave. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men call a gay man and threaten him, giving him 72 hours to leave and move to another town. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men threaten a gay man and tell him to leave the town. The man doesn't leave. The FARC-EP men come to his house, take him to an isolated area, tie him up, torture him, and rape him. NGO Report
COL002 2010 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys; Girls FARC-EP men forcibly recruit a girl and a boy while they are playing in the school playground. They decide that the boy is feminine so they torture him by putting him in a pond filled with leeches. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women ELN men paint threats on the house of a lesbian couple and force them to leave the town. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; ELN men harrass a transgender woman and force her to leave town, stating that they don't allow "fags". NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons ELN men threaten a gay man with rape and murder because of his sexual orientation. One day, several men from the armed group go looking for him, take him near a river, and rape him. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons ELN men rape a gay man and torture him by cutting him with a knife. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men attempt to call a transgender woman to a meeeting with the alleged intent of killing her. Her employees warn her of this intent and she leaves town. The next day, the group sends pamphelets with her name on them, calling for a "social cleansing" operation. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Supporters FARC-EP men forcibly displace a gay man and his parents, accusing the man of going against norms. The family leaves and reports the incident. The group finds the parents and torture them for reporting the incident by cutting them with machetes. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men force a transgender woman to work for them as a spy, believing that LGBTQI+ people are gossipers. They force her to inform them whenever members of the army enter the town. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men force a gay man to leave his farm, telling him that he is going to infect the other young men. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Drunk FARC-EP men force a transgender woman to have sex with them in exchange for money. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men commit sexual violence, including rape, against gay men. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men torture a transgender woman when she begins her transition. They stone her in front of the community. NGO Report
COL002 2010 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men find out that one of their members is gay and has a partner. They forcibly disappear both of them. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary commander threatens a lesbian and her partner, saying he will kill them if they don't leave town. He gives them 24 hours to abandon their house. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary man tortures gay men and transgender women by shooting at their feet because they have to 'walk like men.' He also rips out their earrings. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; girls Paramilitary men wait for a lesbian girl to arrive at the school. They threaten her and force her to leave her town, or they will kill her. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls A paramilitary man threatens two girls because they are in a relationship. The man is the brother of one of the victims. He forcibly displaces his own family and the family of the other girl. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Five Paramilitary men grab a transgender woman while she is walking home at night. They begin touching and hitting her. When she tries to escape, they tell her they are just flirting with her. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons Two members of an armed group who are on guard duty take a gay man to a dark place and take turns raping him at gunpoint. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Men from an armed group accuse a woman of being a lesbian. Despite her denial, three of them rape her. She gets pregnant. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Boys Paramilitary men take a 14-year-old boy who is gay and rape him to "correct" his sexual orientation. NGO Report
COL002 1997 Girls Paramilitary men take a 12-year-old girl to a farm outside of town. They leave her in the room where several men rape her. She becomes pregnant and the men force her to have an abortion. NGO Report
COL002 2018 LGBTQI+ persons; Girls Members of an armed group forcibly disappear a 14-year-old lesbian girl because of her sexual orientation. NGO Report
COL002 2010 LGBTQI+ persons A Paramilitary man has a relationship with another man. Other members of the armed group find out; they forcibly disappear both of them. NGO Report
COL002 2017 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men forcibly disappear a gay young man. The authorities find him dismembered. NGO Report
COL002 2008 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men forcibly disappear a gay man who works for them cooking. They kill him and throw him into the river. The authorities find his body down the river. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men approach a transgender woman and tell her she must leave town. On her way home, two men shoot her six times in her ear, mouth, and arm. NGO Report
COL002 LGBTQI+ persons Members of an armed group kill a gay man and another LGBTQI+ individual. They threaten the gay man's partner, telling him that if he doesn't leave, they will kill him. NGO Report
COL003 Women; Girls Guerrilla men kidnap two girls and force them to perform domestic labor. When they are released after several months, they have bruises and physical signs of torture. NGO Report
COL003 2000 Women Paramilitary men impale women with their guns. One of the women has a guerrilla man as her partner. They rape her, impale her with a stick, and shoot her. NGO Report
COL003 Women Security forces hold woman who is eight months pregnant in an uncovered vehicle for over 24 hours and then fourteen soldiers arrive and rape her. NGO Report
COL003 2003 Women Guerilla men kidnap, rape and kill a woman to punish her son for being a soldier. NGO Report
COL003 Women Between 10 and 15 men from an unidentified armed group rape a woman in front of her child. NGO Report
COL003 Women Army men take a young woman and her mother to a military base. The soldiers rape the young woman and force her mother to watch while pointing a gun at her. NGO Report
COL003 2001 Women Paramilitary take a woman to one of their camps and several men there rape her. NGO Report
COL003 Women Paramilitary men kidnap and rape a woman whose partner is a member of the guerrilla. NGO Report
COL003 Women Unidentified armed men arrive in a town and kill eight people, including a woman who is feeding the workers who are harvesting corn. They cut off her nipples, stuff them in her mouth, cut out her tongue, and pull our her nails. NGO Report
COL003 Girls A guerilla man takes a girl to get a "vaccine" but it is a contraception method. The day after that, he and his commander rape the girl for a whole day. NGO Report
COL003 Women Paramilitary men kidnap a woman and blindfold her. They take her near a river, put a knife in her throat, and rape her. NGO Report
COL003 Women Paramilitary men take a woman and cut her with a machete in her ribs. Four or five of them rape her. NGO Report
COL002A Afro-Colombian persons; LGBTQI+ persons; Women Paramilitary men rape an Afro-Colombian lesbian. They tell her she has to become a real woman and like men. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Girls Paramilitary men see a 16-year-old lesbian kissing her girlfriend. They rape one of them and forcibly displace the other. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary groups throw pamphlets threatening those they consider "undesired". They say they will kill homosexuals, prostitutes, people with HIV, and transgender individuals who are on the streets after 9 pm. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Boys An ELN man tries to rape an 8-year-old boy while he bathes in the river. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons FARC-EP men use threats to force gay men to work for them without pay, assigning them tasks like running errands, washing dishes, cooking, or helping recruit women into the group. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP men torture and rape a gay man at gunpoint on Christmas Eve. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP forcibly displace a gay man from where he is living twice. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Men FARC-EP take a group of young gay men, hit them, and rape one of them. When they return to their homes, FARC-EP men are waiting for them and force them to leave town. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons; Women Two men from a paramilitary group kidnap a lesbian, torture her, rape her, and force her to leave town under threat of being raped by the whole group. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men threaten a bisexual man at his home on multiple occasions, telling him to leave or they will kill him because their group doesn't want "fags" in town. NGO Report
COL002A LGBTQI+ persons A paramilitary man has sex with a transgender woman, becomes concerned that his reputation will suffer if anyone finds out, and kills her. NGO Report
COL002A 2019 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men torture a transgender woman on multiple occasions and ultimately execute her by stoning her to death. NGO Report
COL001 1990s Women An Afro-descendant leader, was deprived of her right to work when the paramilitaries arrive to dig huge holes in her territories, destroying the river. The result of this invasion is that no community members can work there because it is now privatized. Nayibe testified that the paramilitaries believe in the collective imaginary that...Black men and women are inferior." Government Report
COL001 Indigenous persons; Women Armed actors discriminatorily deprive an Indigenous woman of her farmed crops that feed the community. Paramilitary forces enter the territory and take the land to grow marijuana. Afterward, the government fumigates their territory, destroys the Indigenous crops and agrarian livelihood, and causes fatal birth abnormalities and miscarriages among pregnant Indigenous women. Government Report
COL001 Indigenous persons; Women FARC-EP men rape a 59-year old Indigenous woman. Government Report
COL001 Indigenous persons; Women Armed men abduct an Indigenous woman, accusing her of being a FARC-EP collaborator. They hold her for 3 days and rape her. Government Report
COL001 Indigenous persons; Women Armed men come into the home of an Indigenous woman, believing the guerrillas are occupying the house. The torture the woman and her grandmother and rape her daughter. Government Report
COL001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Guerilla men enslave a Black woman for a period of over five years, forcing her to provide medical care and repeatedly torturing and raping her. Government Report
COL006 LGBTQI+ persons Paramilitary men force gay men to participate in boxing matches for the purpose of injuring, humiliating, and, in some, cases exposing them. NGO Report
COL001 Afro-Colombian persons; Women Paramilitary men enslave a widowed Black woman, forcing her to perform domestic labor for them and raping her at night. Government Report
Code Date Groups Summary Source
IQ-001 2014 Women Three ISIS fighters forcibly remove a woman from her family home, force her to wear a hijab and niqab, and rape and beat her. NGO Report
IQ-005 Unknown Women ISIS representatives visit households to identify the number of women living there for the purpose of forcing them into marriage with ISIS fighters. NGO Report
IQ-005 Unknown Women A 22-year-old woman refuses a forced marriage to an ISIS fighter and commits suicide. NGO Report
IQ-006 Unknown Women ISIS fighters kill three women for not wearing the veil in public. NGO Report
IQ-006 Unknown Women ISIS mandates that all women wear the veil and vow to flog men who accompany women not wearing the veil in public. NGO Report
IQ-007 Unknown Women ISIS fighters abduct and execute a woman who is a former Turkmen MP in the Nineveh Governorate and leader of a humanitarian organization. NGO Report
IQ-008 Unknown Women ISIS fighters execute eight women, two of whom are doctors. NGO Report
IQ-012 2014 Women ISIS fighters attack and beat a fleeing family because the daughters were not wearing the niqab. NGO Report
IQ-023 Unknown Women Two ISIS members kidnap the widow of a security services officer for three months, during which they gang-rape her. NGO Report
IQ-029; IQ 272; IQ 275 2015 Women ISIS fighters detain dozens of women and children near its Tikrit HQ with the purpose of using them as human shields, which they did during airstrikes and bombings on the same day. Four women are murdered for refusing to leave their homes in order to become human shields. NGO Report
IQ-030 Unknown Women ISIS creates a committee of women to monitor women's dress, physically punishing women who do not wear a veil. NGO Report
IQ-036 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute two men perceived to be gay by pushing them off a building; separately, ISIS executes 11 men perceived to be gay on charges on homosexuality. NGO Report
IQ-038 2015 LGBTQI+ person In 2014 and 2015, ISIS fighters publicly execute men on a regular basis as punishment for perceived homosexuality. NGO Report
IQ-039 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute three young men for being gay by setting them on fire. NGO Report
IQ-040 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters issue death sentence against two gay men, forcing them into hiding and eventually into fleeing their community. NGO Report
IQ-041 2015 Men; LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute six young men on charges of sodomy; publicly announce planned beheading. NGO Report
IQ-044 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS publicly executes two teenagers for "committing sodomy" by burning them in a pit along with 4 other teenagers with different charges. NGO Report
IQ-045 Unknown Women Women subjected to rape and forced marriage by ISIS fighters. NGO Report
IQ-048 2015 Women Women ISIS members beat a pregnant woman to death with batons for lifting her niqab to drink water. NGO Report
IQ-051 Unknown Women ISIS fighters execute 37 women in Mosul, many of whom were in government, academia, NGO workers or business owners. NGO Report
IQ-052 Unknown Women ISIS fighters execute a female politician and three female doctors, one of whom was killed for refusing to wear a niqab. NGO Report
IQ-053 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters publicly execute 6 people by immolation for engaging in sodomy. NGO Report
IQ-054 2015 Women ISIS fighters have 48 girls forcibly circumsized; girls or women who refuse are punished or killed. NGO Report
IQ-055 2015 Women ISIS fighters execute 8 women accused of adultery and practicing magic. NGO Report
IQ-056 2014 Women; Girls; ISIS fighters trade women and girls as slaves, transporting them in cages. NGO Report
IQ-058 Unknown Women ISIS fighters arrest, beat, and enslave nine women. NGO Report
IQ-059 Unknown Women 400 cases of ISIS fighters raping girls are women in Mosul are secretly documented; family members of survivors share in secret for fear of retribution and stigma, NGO Report
IQ-060 Unknown Women Two ISIS fighters rape four women in public. NGO Report
IQ-061 Unknown Women; Girls Women ISIS fighters monitor public behavior of women and girls, identifying homes of those who "sin" to male ISIS fighters who later raid these homes to arrest, rape, threaten or kill them. NGO Report
IQ-063 2015 Women Two women are followed to their home, and detained, raped and tortured in an ISIS headquarters for leaving their home without a male relative. NGO Report
IQ-065 Unknown Women ISIS fighters sell 14 women wearing niqabs and white clothes to other ISIS fighters. NGO Report
IQ-068 2015 LGBTQI+ person One ISIS fighter executes four men by decapitation on charges of sodomy. He arrested, interrogated, sentenced, and executed the victims himself, using a sword. NGO Report
IQ-075 2016 Women ISIS fighters kipnap five women, display them in public with their arms and legs chained, and later shoot and kill three of the women. NGO Report
IQ-076 2016 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute three men accused of homosexuality. NGO Report
IQ-080 2015 Women ISIS fighters execute seven women by gunshot on allegations of cooperating with Iraqi security forces and seducing young men into committing adultery. NGO Report
IQ-094 2015 Women ISIS fighters attempt to impose forced marriage on a widow and her daughter, engaging in attempted kidnapping and death threats. NGO Report
IQ-095 2016 Women; Girls ISIS enslaves 49 women and girls. NGO Report
IQ-098 Unknown Women ISIS releases a statement noting that women whose husbands escape the country will be treated as slaves and that ISIS solldiers will have the right to sell, marry and/or beat them if they disobey. NGO Report
IQ-099 Unknown Women ISIS fighters enslave 77 women for being married to men who ran away and now work with security forces. NGO Report
IQ-100 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest nine women for being married to men who gave away information on ISIS fighters and facilities to adversaries. NGO Report
IQ-101 2016 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute seven young gay men by immolation, after parading them in public to expose and denigrate their sexuality. NGO Report
IQ-107 2016 Women ISIS fighters hunt down, shoot and kill a Yazidi woman who had escaped from enslavement. Separately, they publicly display the body of another Yazidi woman killed by a landmine and state that she died because she was an apostate. NGO Report
IQ-109 2016 Women ISIS fighters rape a woman in front of her young daughter and husband; when husband complains to ISIS, they are both arrested and executed. NGO Report
IQ-113 2015 Women ISIS fighter arrests, detains and tortures his sister and attempts to force her into marriage with ISIS fighters; she ultimtaely escapes. NGO Report
IQ-122 Unknown Women ISIS fighters arrest and rape a woman from a displaced family for a duration of three days. NGO Report
IQ-123 Unknown Women; Girls ISIS fighters issue an order requiring all women and girls over 4 years old wear black clothes or face brutal punishment including arrest, physical torture, ensalvement and execution of their husbands. NGO Report
IQ-124 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest and rape 18 women for being married to men who joined the security forces. NGO Report
IQ-125 Unknown Women A group of women who have been enslaved by ISIS fighters are later detained; ISIS fighters are observed repeatedly entering the house where they are kept, some of them exiting exiting with individual women and later bringing them back to the house. NGO Report
IQ-126 Unknown Women 70 to 90 women detained by ISIS fighters are observed with torn clothing and bruised faces. NGO Report
IQ-127 2016 Girls Two ISIS fighters kidnap, rape and kill two girls, ages 10 and 13, NGO Report
IQ-128 2014-2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest 22 families, including 34 women, trying to escape; they are paraded around to warn citizens against escaping, noting that the women were "whores" and would be given to ISIS soldiers for enslavement and punishment. NGO Report
IQ-130 2015 Women ISIS fighters attempte to force a female relative into marriage. NGO Report
IQ-132 Unknown Women An ISIS fighter lives with two enslaved Yazidi women. NGO Report
IQ-138 Unknown Women; Girls One ISIS fighter has Yazidi women and two girls as slaves. NGO Report
IQ-147 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest and publicly execute a woman for trying to escape from Mosul after her husband's death. Two days earlier, ISIS fighters had arrested her daughters, 19 years old and 17 years old, after several attempts to forcibly marry them. NGO Report
IQ-149 2016 LGBTQI+ persons ISIS fighters execute two individuals accused of sodomy. NGO Report
IQ-151 2016 Women An ISIS fighter forcibly marries a woman after helping her husband and children escape on the condition that the husband divorce her. She kills him and is arrested and stoned to death for adultery. NGO Report
IQ-152 Unknown Girls ISIS fighters forcibly marry the 12 year old daughter of a man they previosuly arrested and detained. NGO Report
IQ-154 2016 Women Three women are publicly executed after resisting forced marriage by ISIS members. NGO Report
IQ-156 2016 Women ISIS fighters detain, torture and publicly execute two women on charges of adultery and indecency. NGO Report
IQ-165 2016 Women ISIS fighters execute three women accused of adultery by setting them on fire. NGO Report
IQ-169 2016 Boys; LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters arrest, detain, repeatedly rape, and then execute three gay teenagers. NGO Report
IQ-170 Unknown Women Pregnant women forced to stay in hospitals because of inadequte prenatal care are sexually enslaved by ISIL if they attempt to flee. NGO Report
IQ-171 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters detain and repeatedly rape a woman for a month after she sent her daughters away to escape forced marriage to ISIS members. NGO Report
IQ-175 Unknown Women ISIS fighters establish 4 compounds in Mosul where women are sexually enslaved, raped, and forcibly married to ISIS fighters; 4 women held one in of these compounds are executed for "incitement of immorality". NGO Report
IQ-179 2016 Women ISIS fighters enslave, torture, force medication on and rape at least 30 women in ISIS prisons; 9 women are executed by immolation for escaping. NGO Report
IQ-183 2016 Girls An ISIS fighter kidnaps a 9-year-old girl from her home. Two days later, the victim's naked body is found by the side of the road with physical indications of assault and rape. NGO Report
IQ-184 Unknown Women A group of ISIS fighters rape an unknown number of Yazidi women and Muslim enslaved persons. At least 12 women are held captive at the ISIS headquarters. NGO Report
IQ-198 2016 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters publicly execute 8 gay men on charges of sodomy; they close the surrounding roads to force those neaby to observe. NGO Report
IQ-200 Unknown Women ISIS fighters detain and sexually enslave two women married to security force members for a year and a half. NGO Report
IQ-206 2016 Women ISIS fighters sexually ensalve 14 women and kill their husbands and children when they try to escape. NGO Report
IQ-211 Unknown Boys; LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters rape two young men and one teenage boy who are accused of sodomy; they then steal $500 from their community and burn any photos of the victims in their family homes. NGO Report
IQ-214 Unknown Women In Hawija, ISIS fighters conduct home searches, extort money from those who oppose them, confiscate food, and kidnap women for sexual slavery. NGO Report
IQ-215 2016 Women An ISIS fighter gathers 339 people - men, women and children - and executes a large number of them. Of the 150 women in the group, 47 were enslaved. NGO Report
IQ-218 Unknown Women ISIS severely curtails women's freedom of movement and freedom of expression, OKing women from going to market or work; preventing them from speaking to neighbors and relatives; raiding homes to beat women who are not wearing headscarfs; and publicly praying to minimize a women's position in society. NGO Report
IQ-218 Unknown Women Over a period of two months, ISIS fighters detained large numbers of women on baseliess charges. Women who they deemed beautiful were offered a choice between execution and enslavement. 58 women were executed overall. NGO Report
IQ-218 Unknown Women The Authority Mufti of Sharia, a part of ISIS that advises on points of Islamic law, declares that it is permissible for ISIS fighters to forcefully marry women who do not have male family members by buying them from ISIS's treasury. NGO Report
IQ-219 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest, rape, torture and kill four women, whom they charged with witchcraft. Once of the women had been forcibly married 6 times. NGO Report
IQ-220 2016 Women ISIS fighters detain, repeatedly rape and enslave a woman. She states that there is a pamphlet urging ISIS fighters to practice force and violence in marriage with apostates (people who leave Islam). NGO Report
IQ-221 Unknown Women ISIS fighter surveil women and girls and issue physical punishment to those who violate orders, including girls over 3 years old not wearing a veil. A male guardian of indivduals who disobey orders is arrested and flogged. NGO Report
IQ-226 2016 Women ISIS fighters rape a woman who is trying to flee and then burn her alive. NGO Report
IQ-227 Unknown Women ISIS fighters attempt to force a young woman to marry one of them as an act of retaliation against her father for formerly belonging to a tribal coalition. NGO Report
IQ-228 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters rape a woman after her husband witnesses the sexual assult and murder of a child by ISIS fighter and reports it to the ISIS authorities. NGO Report
IQ-228 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters imprison and then forcibly marry a woman after they execute her husband. She was then exhanged in sexual slavery more than 24 times over the course of a year before escaping. Women in sexual slavery were forced to take birth control pills or use spermicide. NGO Report
IQ-229 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman on charges of defamation of the Islamic State, threaten her family, recapture her after escaping and exchange her in sexual slavery to ISIS fighters a total of 19 times. She is one of a group of women in sexual enslavement with ISIS fighters. NGO Report
IQ-230 2016 Women ISIS fighters order a women to separate from her husband in an attempt to force her to marry an ISIS fighter in Turkey. When she refuses, she is kipnapped, accused of spying for government forces, and raped continuously for two weeks by the man she was supposed to marry before she is ultimtely returned home. NGO Report
IQ-231 2016 Women; LGBTQI+ person Three women are raped by ISIS fighters and then executed on charges of "homosexual acts" and "luring young men". NGO Report
IQ-231 2016 Boys; LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute two teenage boys on charges of sodomy, shattering their heads with blocks. NGO Report
IQ-233 2016 Women In Mosul, ISIS fighters maintain a prison for women. They detain approxinately 19 women over a two month period and execute about 40 detainees. NGO Report
IQ-235 Unknown Women An ISIS fighter detained a group of enslaved women in his home. NGO Report
IQ-236 2016 Women ISIS fighters claim three women as their "property" from a group of people they arrested for trying to flee the country. NGO Report
IQ-244 Unknown Women ISIS fighters rape and murder women, orphaning 300 children. NGO Report
IQ-246 2016 Women ISIS holds 20 women for the purposes of raping and torturing them when they return from the battlefield. Forced marriage is threatened. NGO Report
IQ-247 Unknown Women A woman is arrested, tortured and forcibly married to an ISIS fighter, after her husband is arrested and tortured for not divorcing her by her brother, who is also an ISIS fightrer. The husband's fate is unknown. The woman escapes after 5 days. NGO Report
IQ-250 Unknown LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters executed two men for "committing gay activities" by shooting them in the head. NGO Report
IQ-258 2015 Women A woman is ambushed in her home and arrested along with her two sons; she is offered the release of her sons if she approves the forced marriage of her daughter. She tries to escape with her children but is caught, held, repeatedly raped, and then gifted and sold several times. NGO Report
IQ-259 Unknown Women ISIS fighters execute a large number of residents of a village and enslave many of the women. NGO Report
IQ-260 2016 Women Three women are enslaved by ISIS fighters and kept in an ISIS house; they are tortured and ultimately executed by immolation. NGO Report
IQ-262 Unknown Women 17 ISIS fighters execute men and youth, detain women and children, and rape women trying to escape. NGO Report
IQ-266 Unknown GBTQI+ person ISIS fighters execute two young men for homosexual activities by immolation. NGO Report
IQ-269 2015-2016 Women A woman is detained for 9 months after resisting forced marraige to an ISIS fighter; during this time, she witnesses ISIS fighters rape, beat, and torture women. NGO Report
IQ-272 Unknown Women An ISIS fighter executes 7 enslaved women, after confiscating housing and belongings. NGO Report
IQ-272 Unknown Women; LGBTQI+ persons An ISIS fighter confiscates a house, holds four enslaved women, forcibly recruits children and executes two young men accused of homosexuality. NGO Report
IQ-272 Unknown Women ISIS fighter ambushes houses, arrests and enslaves women; another ISIS fighter executes people and rapes women. NGO Report
IQ-274 2015 Women After a woman's husband is imprisoned by ISIS, ISIS fighters attempt to forcibly marry her. When she attempts to flee, she is arrested and whipped for 12 days on charges of "fornication" and is then detained at a remote house for 16 days, where she is raped and tortured before being sold. NGO Report
IQ-278 Unknown Women 30 ISIS fighters execute and enslave women. NGO Report
IQ-279 2016 Women A woman is forcibly removed from her home during a raid of and presented to an ISIS leader who physically and sexually assualts her and then sexually enslaves her, imprisoning her in a house with other women. NGO Report
IQ-281 2014 Women After being arrested for harboring deserting soldiers, a woman is held captive by ISIS for 13 months, during which she and the other women she is imprisoned with are regularly raped, forced to use contraception, and denied medical attention when ill. During this time period, she is sold and "gifted" for sexual enslavement six times. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women After being arrested for sheltering a family member associated with the security forces, a woman is tortured, starved, raped, and held in captivity. She witnesses ISIS fighters select other women to be raped and then sold into sexual enslavement. ISIS fighters also sexually enslave her two teenage daughters. NGO Report
IQ-282 Unknown Women ISIS fighters arrest and kipnap a woman whose husband was associated with the security forces. They hold her for 22 days, during which they torture, verbally abuse and attempt to rape her. They steal all of the possesssion in her home and demand her family pay 10 million Iraqi Dinars for her release. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman, along with her four children, on charges of insulting the Caliph. They torture, interrogate and then "gift" her to the ISIS fighter who killed her husband. He rapes her multiple times before selling her to another fighter. She is then placed in a a camp with 20 other women where they are periodically raped by ISIS fighters. NGO Report
IQ-282 2015 Women ISIS fighters arrest a family trying to flee. They detain the mother and daughters in a hidden room with seven other women where tortured corpses are hanging on the walls. They torture and sexually harass the mother and her daugthers. NGO Report
IQ-282 Unknown Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman attempting to flee with her family. They physically and sexually assault the woman in front of her children and then forcibly moved her to a house where other ISIS fighters steal her gold, jewelry and money. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women ISIS fighters assault and rape two women attempting to escape. NGO Report
IQ-282 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters rape and attempt to forcibly marry a woman, after killing her husband for allegedly being associated with the security forces. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest, beat, rob and detain a pregnant woman attempting to flee, denying her water and stating they would rape her if she was not pregnant. NGO Report
IQ-282 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman and her family trying to flee. After robbing them and killing her husband for being a member of the security forces, ISIS fighters return to the woman's home and attempt to abduct and forcibley marry her, but she escapes. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women ISIS fighters detain a woman with her 18 month old daughter while they were attempting to flee. After confiscating her possesions and interrogating her, they detain her with a group of other women and bring her in front of a judge who accuses her of wearing "non-Islam" clothes to seduce Iraqi soldiers into raping her. He states that she will be "purified" by being forcibly married to an ISIS fighter. She is then taken to a house with three other women but ultimately escapes. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women A woman attempting to flee with her children and mother in law is arrested along with her family and tortured. The women are called "immodest sluts who broke religion and faith". The mother is released on bail but then attacked and raped by another ISIS fighter. NGO Report
IQ-282 2015 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman and her family trying to flee. The woman is imprisoned and initially told she will receive the death penatly for cursing them during her arrest. She is then turned over to an ISIS fighter to serve as a "sabaya" (sexually enslaved woman). He rapes her and then hands her over to others who also rape her. NGO Report
IQ-282 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest and detain a woman fleeing with her family after the death of her husband. ISIS fighters rape her and her sister. NGO Report
IQ-282 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest and torture the widow of a man they executed and attempt to forcibly marry two of her adolescent daughters. NGO Report
IQ-286 2014 Women ISIS fighters arrest several families attempting to flee, and separate the men from the women and children. Four men are executed in front of their families and the women are detained for a month during which they are raped, tortured, and deprived of food and water. NGO Report
IQ-292 Unknown Women ISIS fighters execute six women on a soccer field on charges of spying for the government forces and rejecting soldiers of the caliphate. NGO Report
IQ-294 Unknown Women ISIS delivers multiple fatwas and written guidance on the treatment of enslaved women, which detail acceptable parameters for sexual relations with enslaved women, separation of enslaved women from their children, ownership and sale of enslaved women, torture and physical abuse of enslaved women, and punishment for women attempting to flee salvery. NGO Report
IQ-298 Unknown Women; Girls ISIS fighters kidnap, enslave, rape, torture and repeatedly sell a 17 year old Yazidi girl with a seizure disorder. During a seaizure, they deny her medical treatment by male doctors in a hospital where there are no female doctors availale. She eventually dies. NGO Report
IQ-305 2016 Women ISIS fighters hold a large group of women in sexual enslavement in a single location where they regulary torture, gang rape, and sometimes kill them. The women are forced to take oral contraceptives. One woman held in this group was forced to divorce her husband and marry her cousin, an ISIS fighter, who detained her and raped her over a period of years before handing her over to the fighter who currently enslaves her. NGO Report
IQ-306 2016-2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest a pregnant woman on charges of insulting the symbols of the Islamic State, after publicly executing her husband on charges of being an informant. They interrogate, torture her and sexually enslave her for over a month, during which she repeatedly raped and torutured. NGO Report
IQ-312 2016-2017 Women A woman tries to divorce her husband after learning that he has joined ISIS. He refuses, instead threating her family, taking her children and having her arrested when she attempts to leave. She is sold to several ISIS fighters and is eventually sexually enslaved by a judge when her husband takes her to court for adultery. NGO Report
IQ-326 2017 Women ISIS fighters raid a house and arrest 5 women whom they use as "camouflage" to travel through the areas they want to cross. They threaten them with death, rape one of them at knifepoint, and then trasnfer them to a house where they repeatedly rape all of them. NGO Report
IQ-327 Unknown Women ISIS fighters transfer a woman to a city market where they publicly announce that she is charged with adultery and her sentence is death by stoning. They proceed to stone her to death. NGO Report
IQ-330 Unknown Women In Mosul, ISIS legalizes the sale of women and regularly enslave, rape and trade women. NGO Report
IQ-331 2016 Women ISIS fighters harass a widow to force her into marriage, preventing shop owners from selling goods to her. They then detain, torture, threaten and starve her. She agrees to marry one of them in exchange for food and is abducted by a fighter who rapes her daily for two months. He then gifts her to another ISIS fighter who beats her if she does not wear makeup or the clothes he buys for her. NGO Report
IQ-334 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest and lash a pregnant women 40 times after executing her busband for cooperating with security forces and then force her to have an abortion, performed by female ISIS fighters. She is then given to ISIS fighters who rape her repeatedly over a number of weeks. During this time, she witnesses about 20 enslaved women and observes the corpses of two women. NGO Report
IQ-334 2017 LGBTQI+ person Two young men are burned to death for being gay. NGO Report
IQ-336 2016 Women An ISIS fighter threatens a family with death until they agree to turn over their 21 year old daughter to him for marriage. He then enslaves her and allows other ISIS fighters to rape her for a period of 8 months, after which she escapes. NGO Report
IQ-341 2015 Women An ISIS fighter offers a woman escape from her death sentence if she agrees to marry him. He holds her for 10 days during which he rapes her repeatedly. NGO Report
IQ-345 2014 Women ISIS fighters arrest the widow of a man they executed for 4 months. Upon her release, she discovers her home has been confiscated to become an ISIS headquarters and is re-arrested. While in detention, she is raped and is ultimately sold into sexual enslavement several times. NGO Report
IQ-347 Women Recovered ISIS documents include ownership certificates and pricing guides for enslaved women. NGO Report
IQ-348 2016-2017 Women ISIS fighters take five women hostages, one of whom is beaten and raped for over a week before being sold to other fighters. During this time, she encounters several other enslaved women. NGO Report
IQ-349 Unknown Women ISIS: While trying to escape, a woman gets separated from her family and is found by ISIS fighters who rape her. NGO Report
IQ-350 2014 Women; LGBTQI+ person ISIS issues death warrants for two women for engaging in homosexual acts, driving them into hiding. ISIS identified these women by searching universtiy and police records and discovering the university had filed a complaint against them for kissing. NGO Report
IQ-352 2014 Women ISIS fighters capture a Yazidi woman and her family. She is transported to Syria with the other women and sold each week to different men who rape her. NGO Report
IQ-353 2014 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman, separate her from her husband and three children, and transport her to Syria where they attempt to forcibly marry her. When she resists, she is enslaved and eventually given to an ISIS fighter who rapes her. When she returns, she finds that her husband has been killed and two of her underage daughters are being held by ISIS members. NGO Report
IQ-360 Unknown Women ISIS arrests two women for putting on make-up and not wearing Niqab and imprisons them for 20 days during which the women are bitten, pinched and "forced to do things". NGO Report
IQ-362 2017 Women An ISIS fighter arrests two women for trying to escape and imprisons and enslaves them in his home. He OKs them handcuffed, beats them with belts, and repeatedly rapes them. NGO Report
IQ-364 2017 Women ISIS fighters raid a woman's home after they execute her husband and arrest her, her mother and four other families for trying to escape. The women are are imprisoned, beaten, and then distributed among the fighters to be enslaved and raped. NGO Report
IQ-366 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman at a checkpoint for allegedly being with a man who had killed 4 ISIS fighters. They torture her with an electrical stick before sending her to a house with 5 people where she is raped repeatedly. NGO Report
IQ-368 2017 Women ISIS fighters imprison seven women in a cave and rape them repeatedly for three days. NGO Report
IQ-371 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest a family for attempting to escape and sexually enslave the daughter. She is brought before a Sharia judge and slapped by guards every time she speaks until she faints. She is put up for auction and sold to ISIS fighters five times over seven months. She is raped, tortured and forced to be naked for days at a time. NGO Report
IQ-371 2017 Women Male and female ISIS fighters collude to rape, torture and perform forced abortions on sexually enslaved women. NGO Report
IQ-372 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman after killing her husband on charges of conspiring with government forces. They lash, torture and rape her over a period of 4 days. NGO Report
IQ-373 2017 Women; Girls ISIS fighters arrest a 16 year old girl as she attempts to escape ISIS-controlled territory with several families and rape her. NGO Report
IQ-374 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest a family for attempting to escape and lash the mother and the daughter. They then release the mother and take the daughter to ISIS headquarters where she is beaten, raped and sold to other fighters who also rape and torture her. NGO Report
IQ-375 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman attempting to escape with her family; they take her to Syria and then Turkey where she is raped repeatedly and forced to work in a brothel. NGO Report
IQ-376 2016 Women; Girls A woman and her family are arrested at a checkpoint. They imprison her along with four other women and one seven year old girl at an ISIS headquarters and continuously torture them. When she is brought before a judge, she is enslaved and sold. While enslaved, she is raped on a daily basis and witnesses the beating and raping of other women. NGO Report
IQ-377 2017 Women ISIS fighters arrest several families, including a widow. They kidnap 19 women, including the widow, and place them into a metal prison. They remove groups of women daily for sexual enslavement. The widow is raped repeatedly until she escapes. NGO Report
IQ-378 N/A Women An ISIS document details the prices to be charged for women, based on age, set with an intent to benefit the revenues of the Islamic state. It stipulates that no more than three captive women can be purchesd by one person, with the exception of "Turkish, Syrian and Arabs from the Gulf." NGO Report
IQ-382 Unknown Women A woman is forced to marry an ISIS fighter five different times in succession. She repeatedly attempts suicide and suffers ongoing mental health struggles. NGO Report
IQ-385 Unknown Women ISIS fighters OK a shared schedule detailing their pracitces of sexual enslavement, noting the time slots during which a given fighter would have sex with a given woman. NGO Report
IQ-386 Unknown Women A group of ISIS-affiliated women bite women seen to be transgressing prescribed roles. NGO Report
IQ-388 Unknown Women An ISIS fighter sexually abuses a girl after Friday prayers, taking the girl to his house. NGO Report
IQ-390 Unknown Women Two ISIS fighters enslave two Yazidi women and two Muslim women; they then execute them by immolation. NGO Report
IQ-391 Unknown Women Two ISIS fighters rape at least five women. NGO Report
IQ-392 Unknown LGBTQI+ person An ISIS document contains instructions for killing men perceived to be gay. NGO Report
IQ-395 2016 LGBTQI+ person Reports indicate that ISIS fighters mark the homes of gay men whom they have executed to ensure that the community knew not to deal with that family for 40 days. NGO Report
IQ-395 2016 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters rape and then kill gay youth on charges of sodomy. NGO Report
IQ-395 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS fighters have sex with men and call them "ghulman" or sex slaves, saying that the men were apostates for they were allowed to do anything to them. NGO Report
IQ-396 2016 LGBTQI+ person; Boys ISIS fighters execute six gay youth and blackmail the youths’ families for $1000 each. If the family paid the amount, ISIS would execute the youth in a semi-secret manner and not mention in the execution ruling that the men were gay, sparing the family from embarrassment. NGO Report
IQ-397 N/a Women In the first three months of occupation after ISIS takes control of a city, they enact a host of discriminatory rules limiting the lives of women, including imposing the veil, preventing women from leaving the house except with a mahram (chaperone), and preventing women from wearing any kind of colored clothes. Women who do not obey are flogged or bitten as punishment. Women who previously worked as inspectors in the security services and government departments are executed. NGO Report
IQ-397 N/a Men; In the first three months of occupation after ISIS took control of a city, they enact a host of discriminatory rules limiting the lives of men, including imposing on all men the obligation to grow a beard and shave their mustache or reduce it to a large degree; imposing a uniform for all men, which is the Pakistani dress similar to the ISIS uniform of long shirt and pants; Taking loyalty pledges from the imams of mosques and whoever does not give loyalty is executed; NGO Report
IQ-397 N/a LGBTQI+ persons In the first three months of occupation after ISIS takes control of a city, LGBTQI youths are hunted down and executed by methods that include throwing them from buildings and shooting them in the head. NGO Report
IQ-401 2015-2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a woman for rejecting a marriage proposal from an ISIS fighter and proceed to rape her, film her naked and threaten to forece her into prostitution. She escapces but is then recaptured and sold into sexual slavery. NGO Report
IQ-402 2017 Women ISIS fighters raid a woman's home, take her captive, and transport her accross the Turkish border. Once there, she is slapped, threatend with death and raped by an ISIS fighter before being transported to another city where she is held for a week and rapted several times a day. She is then sold to another ISIS fighter who OKs her ina room with four other women and rapes her repeatedly. NGO Report
IQ-403 2017 Women ISIS fighters raid a woman's home, take her husband and two daughters captive, and attempt to rape her. When she resists she is beaten until she loses consciousness; when she awakes her clothes are torn and she appears to have been raped. The fighters then threaten to kill her family if she does not obey them. They transport her to Syria with five other women and then take to Turkey to accompany ISIS fighters and pose as their family members. Once in Turkey, the women are held in an apartment, gang-raped, and threatened with death. NGO Report
IQ-404 2017 Women A widow flees the impact of a bomb near her home and is taken by ISIS fighters who repeatedly drug, beat, and rape her for 28 days. NGO Report
IQ-405 2017 Women A woman is arrested by ISIS fighters as she is trying to flee with her family. After verbally harassing her, they imprison her, rape her and film her while naked. NGO Report
IQ-406 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a family trying to escape. The woman is taken to a separate room where she is tortured and raped by a total of six ISIS fighters. She is imprisoned for seven days. NGO Report
IQ-407 2016 Women A pregnant women is handed over to ISIS fighters by smugglers she and her husband had enlisted to help them flee their village. She is interrogated and told that her husband will be execuited and she will be married off to an ISIS fighter because they are both apostates. She is kept in detention for a month during which she is raped and beaten until she has severe bleeding and the fetus dies. NGO Report
IQ-408 Unspecified Women ISIS fighters raid a family home in search of a man who used to be a member of the Iraqi army. They harass and beat his wife in front of their children before taking her to a nearby building where they interrogate and torture her. During this time, eight ISIS fighters take turns raping her. NGO Report
IQ-409 2014-2015 Women ISIS fighters summon the widow of a man they executed to appear before a Sharia judge who orders her to evacuate her home. She is placed in a house for 11 days during which she is beaten and three ISIS fighters take turns raping her daily. They take photos of her which they later publish. NGO Report
IQ-411 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a pregnant woman and her husband because she is not wearing black, which they cite as violation of Islamic law. They toruture her and her husband and hold her for a month. When she is released she signs a pledge not to leave the house for three months. NGO Report
IQ-412 2016 Women ISIS fighters arrest a widow, her sisters, and her late husband's family because they tried to escape to safe areas. The widow is detained for five days, during which she is beaten and threatened with sexual enslavement if she speaks. NGO Report
IQ-415 2016 Girls In 2016, ISIS imposes gender-based barriers on access to education, severely limiting the ability of girls to be educated. In some cases, girls are barred from attending school. In other cases, girls are allowed to attend only if they wear the niqab. In another example, boys, but not girls, are permitted to travel out of the village to attend secondary school. NGO Report
IQ-415 2013 Women; Girls Women and girls' clothing are severely restricted in ISIS-controlled areas. NGO Report
IQ-416 2017 Women A woman is badly beaten for going out with her face insufficiently covered. Media
IQ-417 2016 Women Women are whipped or tortured with pliers for not wearing gloves. Media
IQ-418 2016 Women Women are whipped, punished, or threatened for showing their eyes, hands, or legs. Media
IQ-419 2017 Women Female members of ISIS police will use a "biter" on women on parts of their body that are "exposed." Media
IQ-420 2013 Women; Girls In 2013, multiple barriers to education for girls are in place. When allowed to attend school, girls are put in separate classrooms and taught with a curriculum that promotes gender stereotypes. Girls face gender-based threats and harrassement on their way to school for failure to comply with the dress code. Parents report marrying their daughters off early to protect them from forced marraige to ISIS fighters, in many cases cutting off their education early. NGO Report
IQ-421 2014 Women; Girls ISIS requires women above the age of 13 years old to wear the face-covering niqab; parents stop sending their girls to school in order to avoid harassment by ISIS patrols that are enforcing these rules. UN Report
IQ-420 2015 Women; Girls An explosion near a girls' school kills at least four students and a teacher, injuring another four students. NGO Report
IQ-415 2016 Women; Girls The Islamic State detains women and girls in schools, moves them between Iraq and Syria, OKs them in sexual slavery, rapes them, and buys and sells them in slave markets. NGO Report
IQ-416 2014 Women ISIS fighters beat women doctors and nurses for removing their niqab and gloves in order to perform their medical duties. NGO Report
IQ-417 2014 Women ISIS executes women as punishment for serving as politicians or in other professional roles. UN Report
IQ-418 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS issues death warrants against persons perceived to be LGBTQI. NGO Report
IQ-419 2015 Women; Girls ISIS issues discriminatory rules for women and girls which include stipulation that women must serve their husbands and families, women cannot manage money, and women can only leave their home for certain purposes (e.g. to study theology, become a women's doctor, work as a women's teacher or to engage in Jihad if ruled on by FATWA.) NGO Report
IQ-420 2014 Women; Girls ISIS restricts the movement of women and girls, prohibiting them from moving in public without a male guardian with punishments consisting of beatings. UN Report
IQ-421 2016 Women Women have to dress in a cloak with their head, face and feet fully covered or be punished with 50 lashings and sometimes biting of the exposed extremities. Media
IQ-422 2016 Women; Girls Early and forced marraiges are regular occurances. Girls may be forced to marry as young as 9 years old often no later than 16 or 17. Women who resist forced marriage are stoned. Media
IQ-423 2015 Women ISIS fighters may rape and enslave women. The enslavement is subject to ISIS's rules on proper "rape" relations between the fighters and the enslaved women. Media
IQ-424 2015 LGBTQI+ person Real or perceived homosexuality is forbidden and it has been documented that the punishment has been execution. NGO Report
IQ-426 2014 Women, supporters To enforce dress code compliance for women, ISIS fighters punish men for any dress code violations discovered among the women in their household. In the town of Tikrit, ISIS perfomred dress code checks on women and flogged men if any women in his familiy were not in compliance. They also flogged any man who accompanied a woman that was not wearing a veil. NGO Report
IQ-427 2014 Men (perceived as LGBTQI+) Men are forbidden from wearing skinny jeans or tight clothing. ISIS arrested men caught wearing tight pants in Raqqa. Media
IQ-428 2015 Men Men are required to have a beard. ISIS "beard police" jailed those that violate this law and on their second offense, they are beheaded. Media
IQ-429 2014 Women ISIS members beat women with sticks for not wearing veils in Mosul's markets. NGO Report
IQ-430 2015 Women ISIS members kills a 20-year-old pregnant woman because she lifted her niqab to drink some water. An hour after the members beat her unconscious, she passes away. NGO Report
IQ-431 2015 Women ISIS murders three women for not wearing the hijab. Media
IQ-432 2015 Women ISIS assaults a woman with a "biter", a metal device with teeth that cuts into flesh, for forgetting to wear her gloves in public. Media
IQ-433 2015 Women ISIS members detain a woman and her widowed sister in law for being out in public without a mahram. The women were waiting in line for a gas cannister and explained that they had no men available to accompany them, as the woman's husband was at work. After raiding their home, ISIS members kidnap both women, beat them, and raped at least one of them. Both women die shortly after by suicide. NGO Report
IQ-434 2014 women ISIS kill a female parliamentary candidate in her home. NGO Report
IQ-416 2014 Women Militia members attack a woman gynecologist and then stab her to death after an open letter is posted protesting the dress code for women doctos. Media
IQ-435 2015 Women ISIS executes two female lawyers for violating its ban on women practicing law in the criminal court. UN Report
IQ-436 2014 Women ISIS abducts and then publicly executes two former female parliamentary candidates. ISIS reportedly forced the women to "repent," but then did not accept their repentance. Media
IQ-437 2014 Women In a pattern of targeting female community and political leaders, ISIS shot the female Deputy Attorney General of the Mosul Court of Appeal in the head in a public execution. Media
IQ-438 2014 Women In a pattern of targeting female community and political leaders, ISIS abducts a lawyer and human rights activist and publicly executes her by masked firing squad five days later outside a former governorate building. UN Report
IQ-439 2023 Men ISIS arrest a group of young men for shaving their beards for three months and threaten them with beheading if they removed their beards again. Militia members also circulate leaflets claiming that barbers and hairdressers are an "accessory to sin" if they shave or trim men's beards and will be detained if they do so. Media
IQ-435 2015 LGBTQI+ person ISIS-appointed courts sentence men to death for being perceived as LGBTQI and carry out executions through methods that include throwing the victims off the top of buildings. Any who survive the fall are stoned to death. UN Report
IQ-440 2014 Women; Girls Yazidi women and girls who have managed to escape ISIS report that fighters forced them into "weddings" including "temporary marriages," sold them multiple times and gave them as "gifts" to fighters. NGO Report
IQ-441 2014 Women; Girls ISIS transports 150 of the approximately 450-500 Yazidi and Christian women and girls it imprisoned in to be "given" to ISIS fighters or sold into sexual slavery. UN Report
IQ-442 2016 Women; Girls ISIS fighters detain a group of famlies trying to flee including a Sunni woman who the beat, suspended from cables, and raped repeatedly in front of her children after she refused to marry one of the fighters. NGO Report
IQ-443 2015 Women; Girls ISIS fighters knock on the door of a home and demand to marry one of the daughters in the household, claiming it is his legal right. The family manages to flee. Media
IQ-444 2016 Women; Girls ISIS executes a family of seven after the famiy refused to allow an ISIS member to wed their 11-year-old daughter. ISIS members rape and immolate the young girl. NGO Report
IQ-445 unknown Women; Girls ISIS captures nine women and a twelve-year-old girl, rapes them, kills them, and then hangs their bodies out in public. NGO Report
IQ-440 2014 Women; Girls A Yazidi girl, who has been captured by ISIS, contacts UN monitors and tells them several ISIS fighters raped her multiple times before selling her in a market. NGO Report
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