Combating Sexual Violence in the DRC : From Resolutions to Practice

Mona Eltahawy, a prominent Egyptian feminist activist and writer who has spoken about her own experience of sexual assault by riot police officers during the 2011 revolution,

The conference on “Sexual Violence, the Armed Forces and Mili- tary Operations” arranged by the Gender Project at the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) 17th of June 2011

• Urges WCC member churches and ecumenical partners to condemn or reiterate their condemnation of sexual and gender-based violence and of any form of violence against women,

Even though a register of cases of sexual violence within the Peruvian Military does not exist, serious reports -especially on sexual harassment and rape- have been released in

In this regard, rape (as an act of sexual violence) is defined as “a physical invasion of a sexual nature, committed on a person under circumstances which are coercive”. The term

Having explored and discussed the main patterns of wartime sexual violence in Colombia, including the contexts in which sexual violence is perpetrated, and the armed actors

Based on 27 interviews with both male survivors and experts conducted in Uganda, the thesis concludes that sexual violence against men is perpetrated for the

In a limited study of established perpetrators of sexual violence from the wars in Bosnia, based on an analysis of court transcripts from the International Criminal Tribunal of the