"Everyday violence against women soars in wartime."

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http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1264/2007/00/25-111901-1.htm

Refugee rape

Sexual violence has probably been part of war since humans started fighting, and for a long time many people assumed it was inevitable. But voices calling for action against conflict-related rape are getting louder and more mainstream, and it seems both a reasonable and topical choice for Oxford-based Forced Migration Review to publish a whole issue on it.

Articles range from the taboo of sexual violence against men and boys, through the dangers of firewood-collecting in Darfur, and on to what Liberia is doing to help rape survivors in a country where some 40 percent of women and girls were sexually assaulted during the war.

Early marriage as a form of sexual violence in wartorn African countries is something of a recurring theme in the issue.

Nona Zicherman has collected testimonies from girls in Burundi whose families thought they were protecting their children by getting them husbands - but from the daughters' perspective it was daily rape. snip

IPS quotes a Colombian activist, Claudia Mejia: "Everyday violence against women soars in wartime."

[Katherine Brengle]

1. There's great background on this issue in the book...

Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller.

I find it interesting that there would be focus on sexual violence against men when almost all sexual violence in the world is perpetrated against women by men...

[Katherine Brengle]

2. I'm kicking this so people might actually read it...