I just don't get it.

If a bunch of people sat in a room with the task of imagining the most f***ed-up thing they could think of, it couldn't be much worse than this:

A 13-year-old girl is raped by three men, and when her father complains to the authorities, they accuse her of adultery and sentence her to be stoned to death. She is taken to a football stadium where 1,000 people watch as she is placed in a hole in the ground and buried to her neck. Fifty men stone her, and at one point nurses are sent to check whether she is still alive. She is, so they put her back in the hole until she dies. Then a story is fabricated for the press in which she is 23 and pleads guilty to "adultery," accepting her fate, rather than pleading for her life, as she did in reality -- as if these changes of detail makes the hideous spectacle somehow excusable. Later, Amnesty International learned the factual details from witnesses to the execution. One boy was shot in a crossfire as members of the crowd attempted to assist the girl.

So, yes, this is what is happening on the mainland in Somalia.

After reading that horrible, enraging story, I needed to search for organizations that are helping women in places that hold little hope for them -- although, in the case of the organization below, not specifically Somalia, but perhaps they will include that country in the future. But it is helping women in Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Sudan, etc. It looks like a wonderful organization. I have been looking for something like this to support.

Women for Women International

Another one for the "Really?" file.

It's bad enough that three policemen, at the wrong house, looking for three white prostitutes, tried to arrest a 12-year-old black girl as one of their suspects, and beat her so that she had to be hospitalized and suffered ear drum injury.
But then, instead of apologizing to the traumatized girl, who's still having nightmares about the incident two years later, they try to sue her and her father for assaulting a public servant, because they tried to fight back against the ridiculously bungled arrest by plain-clothes policeman who just jumped out of an unmarked van and began attacking the girl, who had stepped out of her home to turn on a breaker switch.
The first case was a mistrial, and the new case it set for February.
WTF, Galveston, Texas? Really?

KBR vs. Saudi Arabia on justice for women.

It's even closer than I thought, with "arbitration" pretty much Halliburton lingo for "sharia," as far as sexual assault accusations go.

This is really the limit. I don't know what else to say.

And it looks like they're going to get away with it.

From Time staff writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's blog:

At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience for women.

Related: What else do Saudi Arabia and Halliburton have in common?

What else do Halliburton and Saudi Arabia have in common?

Justice for rape victims, apparently. In fact, Saudi Arabia is arguably more advanced here, in that they actually tried and sentenced the perpetrators.

ABC story on KBR/Halliburton's cover-up of the gang rape of a female employee in Iraq.

And since rescuing her -- from KBR, who had locked her in a room with no food or water! -- at the request of her congressman, the State Dept. hasn't done a hell of a lot, either, nor has Justice. Maybe they will now that it's on the news.