Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege’s award should make us consider the impact on those who suffer sexual assaults
Ten years ago, when I was raped, I never could have predicted a single six-character hashtag would come to symbolise – at least for the media – all the world’s survivors of sexual assault and misconduct. But #MeToo is apparently a trend, and news stories around rape are now “topical”, even though this crime has been taking place for all of human history. So a year on from the start of the so-called #MeToo era, how can we take stock of everything that has emerged since the Harvey Weinstein scandal first broke?
Related: ‘I fell between the cracks’: author Winnie M Li on how rape survivors are failed by the system
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