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WOMEN - CRISES - CONFLICT & WAR - NATURAL DISASTERS - TRAUMA & VICTIMIZATION - MEMORIES & SUFFERING LINGER

 

WUNRN posts this photo of women in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina LEST WE FORGET.  These women, now older, carry the permanent mental and physical scars from the rape, the massacre, the genocide.

 

Yet, the media and attention, and support have moved on. Today, we see headlines and "breaking news" of many parts of the world in conflict, reeling from disasters, and resulting in women's and children's displacement, increased poverty, challenges to rights and basic social needs as food, water and sanitation, and health care. Has the world forgotten the women of Srebrenica in Bosnia, the earthquake victim women in Pakistan, the shocking number of women displaced by the internal conflict in Colombia, the victims of femicide in Guatemala, the women trying to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Sandy in the US, the women and girls who survived the tsunami in Asia only to be victimized further as by trafficking.

 

Missing Relatives. Women pray together at a memorial in honour of their missing relatives, Srebrenica, Bosnia.

 

Women & War - International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC

08/2001 © CICR /DANZIGER, Nick

 

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