Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict Conference

Rapes Committed During South Sudan’s Conflict Detailed by the UN

• June 8, 2014

Sexual violence remains a persistent war crime even as the United Nations Security Council and many governments try to fight such atrocities against civilians with condemnations, international law, sanctions and tribunals. The International Criminal Court has just issued a new policy paper to increase prosecutions of gender-based crimes. And as a summit to end …

Africa, Gender Violence, Women

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To Better Prosecute Sexual Violence Crimes, Look to World War II

Shanti Sattler

• May 28, 2014

LONDON — Crimes of sexual violence consistently result from large-scale conflict and war around the world. Rape and enforced prostitution, among other gender-based crimes, are used as a tool to enhance violence and domination and to spread fear among civilians. Whether systematic or isolated in nature, such acts leave devastating physical and psychosocial wounds …