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Conflict
today is less about soldiers engaging in battle with soldiers on the other side
of a national border and more about combatants struggling for control within a
single country and employing any means to break the will of civilians—women,
girls, men and boys—by disempowering them physically, psychologically,
economically, and socially.
In many of
today’s conflicts, women are disempowered by rape or the threat of it, and by
the HIV infection, trauma and disabilities that often result from it. Girls are
disempowered when they cannot go to school because of the threat of violence,
when they are abducted or trafficked, or when their families disintegrate or
must flee. In some conflicts, men are also disempowered by sexual violence.
Boys, too, are sometimes exploited or forced to become soldiers.
The State of
World Population 2010 explores how conflict and protracted humanitarian
emergencies affect women and girls—and men and boys—and shows how many women
and young people have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and have
begun rebuilding their lives and laying the foundation for peace and renewal of
their societies.
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