Securing justice for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: The stigma belongs with the perpetrator / Zainab Hawa Bangura.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hawa Bangura, Zainab, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Refugees.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights and Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages)

Contained In:

Freedom from Fear Vol. 2016, no. 10, p. 93-98 2016:10<93 2519-0709

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Imagine that you live in a country that had experienced a brutal and devastating war, and during that war you, or someone you loved, were the victims of sexual violence in conflict. Imagine the pain and betrayal you would feel knowing that those who orchestrated wide scale and systematic rapes, sexual slavery, forced marriages and other forms of sexual violence were allowed to walk free as if nothing had happened and remain a part of the community where you live, and each day you were forced to face them in public. This is the reality for most victims of sexual violence in conflict. Years after the guns have fallen silent they still struggle to rebuild their lives whilst their tormentors enjoy impunity. In Bosnia, only a handful of perpetrators have been prosecuted 20 years after the war, despite the fact that an estimated 50,000 women, and an unknown number of men, were raped during the conflict there.

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