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Are Middle East rapes causing social change?

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Published: 24 October 2015

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Rape in the Middle East and women-led organizing: is social change on the horizon for Syrian refugees? – Lilith 07.10.15
As desperate refugees continue to stream into Europe in response to the Syrian civil war and ISIS brutality, it’s easy to become overwhelmed or grief-stricken. But Israeli-born kibbutznik, Yifat Susskind, sees a modicum of progressive social change on the horizon for those most affected by the crisis.

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