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Sexual Violence: a Tool of War - Un
BACKGROUND NOTE Sexual Violence: a Tool of War Sexual violence in conflict needs to be treated as the war crime that it is; it can no longer be treated as an unfortunate collateral damage of war. -- UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura The victims of modern armed conflict are far more likely to be civilians than soldiers. According to UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, the vast majority of casualties in today s wars are among civilians, mostly women and children. Women in particular can face devastating forms of Sexual violence, which are sometimes deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives. Rape committed during war is often intended to terrorize the population, break up families, destroy communities, and, in some instances, change the ethnic make-up of the next generation.
slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or “any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity” as a crime against humanity when it is committed in a ...
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