{"id":27333,"date":"2021-08-02T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=351434"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:14:33","slug":"how-wartime-violence-against-women-is-hurting-millions-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/how-wartime-violence-against-women-is-hurting-millions-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wartime Violence Against Women Is Hurting Millions Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"content-body\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">We all know war is destructive, that it can leave nations and people alike crippled for years to come, both physically and metaphorically. But the unrest associated with war can also have unseen implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Sexual violence is often a product of war that is obscured by war\u2019s more publicized aspects. For example, in the Congo, women and girls are being raped and tortured while the country experiences civil war. And women in feuding Burma are constantly frightened for their lives because the Burmese army systematically rapes them as punishment for insurgents\u2019 actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><span id=\"content-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8.jpg\" alt=\"Millions of women in countries around the world are affected by sexual violence in areas of conflict.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351443\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8-270x338.jpg 270w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8-540x675.jpg 540w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8-135x169.jpg 135w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-8-768x960.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 1200px, (min-width:992px) 992px, (min-width:768px) 768px, (min-width:576px) 480px, 300px\"><\/span><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span id=\"content-body\">Millions of women in countries around the world are affected by sexual violence in areas of conflict.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">According to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/preventgenocide\/rwanda\/assets\/pdf\/Backgrounder%20Sexual%20Violence%202014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"content-body\">in Rwanda, between 100,000 and 250,000 women were raped during the three months of genocide in 1994<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"content-body\">More than 40,000 in Liberia (1989-2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"content-body\">Nearly 60,000 women were raped in the former Yugoslavia (1992-1995)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"content-body\">At least 200,000 women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Even after conflict has ended, the impacts of sexual violence persist, including unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and stigmatization.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><span id=\"content-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5.jpg\" alt=\"Sexual violence is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable. It can and must be stopped!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351440\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5-270x338.jpg 270w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5-540x675.jpg 540w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5-135x169.jpg 135w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-5-768x960.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 1200px, (min-width:992px) 992px, (min-width:768px) 768px, (min-width:576px) 480px, 300px\"><\/span><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span id=\"content-body\">Sexual violence is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable. It can and must be stopped!<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Because rape and sexual violence were so rife during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the country is now seeing a sharp rise in cases of HIV\/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/africarenewal\/magazine\/january-2005\/sexual-violence-invisible-war-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN<\/a> reports. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint UN Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS)<\/a>, of the 170,000 people between the ages of 15 and 49 estimated to be living with the virus in Sierra Leone in 2001, 90,000 were women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Wartime rape is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable. According to a special report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usip.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/SR323.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Institute of Peace<\/a>, \u201cit is also not specific to certain types of conflicts or to geographic regions. It occurs in ethnic and non-ethnic wars, but it is nevertheless devastating both to women and to the countries they come from.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><span id=\"content-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6.jpg\" alt=\"The United Nations' fund dedicated to Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict is working to end the use of sex as a weapon in times of conflict.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351441\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6-270x338.jpg 270w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6-540x675.jpg 540w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6-135x169.jpg 135w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-6-768x960.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 1200px, (min-width:992px) 992px, (min-width:768px) 768px, (min-width:576px) 480px, 300px\"><\/span><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span id=\"content-body\">The United Nations\u2019 fund dedicated to Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict is working to end the use of sex as a weapon in times of conflict.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Survivors of such atrocities must be provided with comprehensive assistance, whether for their physical or mental consequences of the rape and sexual violence, but also with assistance that will help them to move on and rebuild their lives crushed by the horrific experiences, writes Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ewelinaochab\/2021\/06\/14\/the-other-pandemic-rape-and-sexual-violence-in-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a>. No woman should walk alone in her suffering after the experience of rape and sexual violence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Much remains unknown about the patterns and causes of wartime sexual violence as existing data doesn\u2019t show whether wartime sexual violence is increasing, decreasing, or holding steady worldwide. In spite of this, policymakers should instead focus on variation at lower levels of aggregation, and especially across armed groups, the USIP report recommends, where commanders in effective control of their troops can be held legally liable for patterns of sexual violence they fail or refuse to prevent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\"><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><span id=\"content-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4.jpg\" alt=\"Adults are not the only ones hurt by sexual violence.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351439\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4-270x338.jpg 270w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4-540x675.jpg 540w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4-135x169.jpg 135w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-4-768x960.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 1200px, (min-width:992px) 992px, (min-width:768px) 768px, (min-width:576px) 480px, 300px\"><\/span><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span id=\"content-body\">Adults are not the only ones hurt by sexual violence.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">A consistent challenge to tracking sexual violence in conflicts is under-reporting, whether because of stigma, the risk of retaliation, lack of access for monitors, inadequate means for safe reporting, and weak government response, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2015\/04\/14\/un-sexual-violence-tactic-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Watch<\/a> reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">The secretary-general\u2019s report cites 117 incidents of sexual violence in Sudan affecting 206 victims in 2014. However, Human Rights Watch research indicates the numbers are far higher and that the UN is not recording or officially acknowledging many cases. These include the&nbsp;Sudanese army attacks in Tabit, in which at least 221 women and girls were raped, as documented in a recent Human Rights Watch report. The Sudanese government has blocked a credible investigation and victims\u2019 access to services, yet the Security Council has taken no action in response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">\u201cGovernments have made concrete commitments to survivors of sexual violence in conflict, but they are overdue on fulfilling them,\u201d said&nbsp;Nisha Varia, women\u2019s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cGovernments should improve access to the full range of reproductive health and psychosocial services, as well as redress and reparations in the courts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><span id=\"content-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7.jpg\" alt=\"Take a stand for women and help reduce wartime sexual violence!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351442\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7-270x338.jpg 270w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7-540x675.jpg 540w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7-135x169.jpg 135w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WartmeSexualViolence-7-768x960.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 1200px, (min-width:992px) 992px, (min-width:768px) 768px, (min-width:576px) 480px, 300px\"><\/span><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span id=\"content-body\">Take a stand for women and help reduce wartime sexual violence!<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/about-us\/un-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations\u2019 fund dedicated to Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict<\/a> is working to end the use of sex as a weapon in times of conflict, and war. Often, though, its critical mission is not made a priority while planning an international response to unrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">The women of the world need to make sure that leaders know that we will not stand for being victims of sexual violence. Click below and demand the the UN prioritize the protection of women during conflicts around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside readability=\"9.5100864553314\"><span id=\"content-body\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"content-body\">&nbsp;Stop Wartime Sexual Violence<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/clickToGive\/bcs\/petition\/WartimeSexualViolence?gg_medium=content&amp;gg_source=bcs&amp;gg_term=2474956&amp;gg_campaign=WartimeSexualViolence&amp;gg_content=petition-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/http-aws.greatergood.com\/clickToGive\/images\/takeaction\/campaigns\/WartmeSexualViolence-1000x1000-petition.jpg\" alt=\"Stop Wartime Sexual Violence\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Even after conflict has ended, the impacts of sexual violence persist, including unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and stigmatization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\">Wartime sexual violence can and must be prevented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"content-body\"><strong>Click below to take a stand and ask the UN to prioritize preventing wartime sexual violence!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ctg-cta\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/wp-content\/themes\/causeblog-v3\/assets\/img\/icon-bcs-support.png\" alt><\/p>\n<h5>Provide Mammograms<\/h5>\n<p>Support those fighting Breast Cancer at <span>The Breast Cancer Site<\/span> for free! <span>\u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav id=\"recommended\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Recommended Articles\"><\/nav>\n<p><span class=\"sr-only\">Whizzco<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/wartimesexualviolence\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know war is destructive, that it can leave nations and people alike crippled for years to come, both physically and metaphorically. 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