... Peru, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Papua New Guinea and the United States, for example, indicate that between oneand two-thirds of the sexual assault victims are 15 years and younger (Heise, Pitanguy ... woman's defloration in Algeria. As Ben Baraka explains, an Algerian girl's entire education is geared toward respecting male authority and safeguarding her virginity until marriage. ... political ends: to intimidate and punish individual women, to destabilize and demoralize communities, and to drive unwanted populations from their land. In Burma, for example, rape was part of an...