Eight years on, raped women are still being ostracised "I just saw these Kikuyu young men [..]. They didn't say anything. They just beat me up and raped me in turns. They abandoned me near the river until I was rescued by a Kikuyu woman who dressed me but said she had to run because she was fleeing to a part of the slum with more Kikuyus. It w...

Jack Sparrow enchants patients at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital ​ Johnny Depp and co-star Stephen Graham, dressed as Jack Sparrow and pirate Scrum, took a break while filming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" last year to surprise patients at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Despite primarily shyness, the...

How Atifete Jahjaga fights for the rights of wartime rape victims ​ During the war in 1998 and 1999 between the ethnic Albanian majority fighting for an independent Kosovo, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA),and Slobodan Milosevic's brutal security forces, an estimate of 20,000 women - and men - were raped, often branded with the Serbian cross and th...

A demonstration against domestic violence in Mexico's capital ​ In Ciudad Juarez, "Six women are killed every day.", which is why it was named 'femicide city' for a long time and also why the 'gender alert' was created in 2007 - to strengthen protection and help for the female victims. "Gender alert in the State of Mexico" chanted some Congresswome...

Healing Souls impressed Reset.org - so much that they wrote a blog article about us! To read the whole article, follow the link below. From Trauma to Thriving, Via Healing Souls | RESET.org In war-ravaged countries, and in those with high levels of poverty, mental health is massively under-resourced, leaving many vulnerable people su...