I appreciate that this may unleash comment, but couldnt the Foreign Office put pressure on their counterparts in he countries where these atrocities occur? I understand the argument about foreign aid being necessary to alleviate the terrible poverty and subsequent lack of sanitation, roads, school etc. but surely I can't be the only person who despairs of watching reports on TV of mobs of young men on trucks firing AK 47's in the air, or reading of the success of the Nigerian film industry or of India's space programme, and then seeing reports of these terrible crimes against women? How can he money be found for guns/film making/space programmes? Surely the responsibility lies with the (often corrupt) governments of these countries? Maybe if there was a threat of the money drying up they would do something? I hope I don't come across as uncaring, I am not, in fact I get incandescent with rage when I see and read these reports, I have a 17 year old daughter and look at her and realise what an accident of birth can mean for your life chances. I just think we should have less hand wringing, and more action.