Report Reveals Rape Of Tribeswomen By Loggers

Report Reveals Rape Of Tribeswomen By Loggers   A new report has exposed an ‘environment of violence’ against tribeswomen in Borneo. According to the report, released by a coalition of Malaysian human rights groups called the Penan Support Group, there have been repeated cases of rape and sexual assault against Penan women by the loggers who are destroying the tribe’s forests.   They follow allegations by other Penan women in 2008, which the Malaysian government denied but was later forced to...

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