Lauren Wolfe | Foreign Policy

There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been

By Lauren Wolfe
March 30, 2017 - 11:30 am

Recent history shows that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s plan to create “interim zones of stability” in Syria won’t actually help save civilian lives.

What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo

By Lauren Wolfe
June 23, 2016 - 5:21 pm

The government wouldn't stop a powerful politician from allegedly gang-raping 50 young girls -- until it got a little bad press.

Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing.

By Lauren Wolfe
March 30, 2016 - 12:40 pm

Ten years after it was ordered to make reparations to victims of mass rape, DRC’s government still hasn’t paid a cent.

The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem

By Lauren Wolfe
August 13, 2015 - 1:10 pm

Despite investigations into crimes in the Central African Republic, impunity still reigns.

When War and Weather Conspire

By Lauren Wolfe
July 24, 2015 - 1:48 pm

In an increasingly vicious cycle, conflict pushes people from their homes — then floods or landslides force them out of the U.N. tents where they took shelter.

The Worst of All Horrors

By Lauren Wolfe
June 11, 2015 - 12:21 pm

Psychologists in Iraq, a country long afflicted by violence, say they’ve never seen more terrible trauma than that caused by the Islamic State.

Refugees in Their Own Homeland

By Lauren Wolfe
May 15, 2015 - 12:57 pm

There are now over 38 million displaced people who are trapped in their own countries by war and violence -- a new record. So why isn’t anyone helping them?

A Miserable Mystery in Congo

By Lauren Wolfe
April 9, 2015 - 1:33 pm

Dozens of female infants and girls in a single town have been abducted and raped in the middle of the night. Could witchcraft be to blame?

Not Monsters, but Men

By Lauren Wolfe
March 6, 2015 - 6:12 pm

India's ban on a new documentary about rape has nothing to do with preventing violence against women. And it won’t solve the country’s sexual assault problem.