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Say No to Violence - UN Women
February
10, 2011
Stop Rape in Conflict - Video
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women in today's civil wars, often war is not over when it is over. Sexual
violence has become a method of fighting in modern war, with a devastating
impact on women and their communities. Failure to address sexual violence in
the peace processes, to treat it as a war crime and prosecute it means that it
spills over into peace time. Addressing sexual violence in peace processes is a
way of signaling that sexual violence is unacceptable in the post-conflict era.
Yet it has been absent from peace accords for a number of reasons, not least
because so few women participate in peace talks. In two path breaking
resolutions, the UN Security Council acknowledges the use of sexual violence in
conflict as a deliberate tactic of war and a security threat. It calls for the
prevention and prosecution of sexual violence in conflict, for reparations and
services for victims, and for women to engage in decision-making.
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