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18 Ann. Surv. Int'l & Comp. L. 45 (2012)
Corrective Rape in South Africa: A Continuing Plight despite an International Human Rights Response

handle is hein.journals/ansurintcl18 and id is 59 raw text is: CORRECTIVE RAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CONTINUING PLIGHT DESPITE AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE RODERICK BROWN* I. INTRODUCTION A young girl of 13 years was raped near Petroria, South Africa on May 4, 2011 because of her sexual orientation.' According to the 13-year-old victim, her assailant told her he was curing her of lesbianism. This was only one of the most recent attacks that have become unexpectedly common in the Rainbow Nation-a country known for its progressive constitution, and the first in the world to specifically proscribe discrimination based on sexual orientation. Corrective rape, as it is called, has claimed many victims in South Africa and around the world. The crime has also resulted in the brutal killings of some victims, including the particularly well-known case of former South African soccer star, Eudy Simelane, who was gang raped and stabbed to death in 2008 because of her sexual orientation. The term corrective rape stems from the prevalence of the crime in South Africa, where it is used to describe rape perpetrated by straight men against lesbian women in order to correct or cure their * J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law. 1. Navi Pillay, No Place for Homophobia Here, THE STAR (June 14, 2011), available at http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/no-place-for-homophobia-here- 1.1083306. 2. South Africa: New Constitution Protects Gays and Lesbians, INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (May 05, 1996), http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/ article/takeactionlresourcecenter/73.htmi.

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