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![]() Human rights activists on the ground say as many as 6,000 women have been the victims of sexual violence since the start of the conflict in 2011, while thousands more have been killed, tortured, abducted, held to ransom or used as human shields. ![]() In the context of Syria, that resolution reads like a utopian ideal. – Publisher description.The United Nations Security Council calls on all parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict. Sexual violence in war has long been a taboo subject but, as this book shows, new and courageous steps are at last being taken Ð at both local and international level - to end what has been called the “greatest silence in history”. The book concludes by looking at strategies of prevention and protection as well as new programs being set up on the ground to support the rehabilitation of survivors and their communities. ![]() Difficult questions of accountability are tackled in particular, the case of child soldiers, who often suffer a double victimization when forced to commit sexual atrocities. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such as patriarchy and militarized masculinity. ![]() It explores the function and effect of wartime sexual violence and examines the conditions that make women and girls most vulnerable to these acts both before, during and after conflict. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses to sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month. ![]()
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