Sentence examples for of corrective rape from inspiring English sources

Like those of "corrective rape", or the mob murder of a 19-year-old lesbian, Zoliswa Nkonyana.

The group says it is dealing with up to 10 new cases of "corrective rape" every week.

There is also, in South Africa, the scourge of "corrective rape," in which men believe that raping lesbians and gay men will "cure" them of their sexual orientation.

The Colonel's manner is as genial as Captain Mabuza's, and he, too, insisted that he knew of no other incident of corrective rape in the area.

This is particularly urgent today, given the epidemic of "corrective rape" against the women she photographs, despite South Africa's official embrace of gay and lesbian equality.

In South Africa two weeks ago a massive march in Soweto said no to the epidemic of "corrective rape" of lesbians.

She won the Stonewall Broadcaster of the Year award 2009 for her special report on "corrective" rape in South Africa.

In a recent television special on corrective rape, the independent station ETV featured black men on the street saying things like "Sodom and Gomorrah were burned down because of this filth"; "It goes against nature"; and "We have lost our manhood because of these things".

Boys are beaten up by their family for acting "too feminine", and the NGO regularly receives reports of girls being submitted to "corrective rape", sometimes by members of their own family, when they come out as gay.

African gangs subject lesbians to "corrective rape".

But after the murder of Ms Nogwaza - and a petition signed by 170,000 people around the world calling for an end to "corrective rape" - the justice department has begun to listen.