Thursday, April 16, 2015

United Nations: UN report on rape in war undercounts the real fallout

from Women's Media Center, April 15, 2015

      On Monday, a report from the UN was made public by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that highlights sexualized violence in war. The report, which will be presented to the UN Security Council today, covers attacks conducted in 2014 and describes violence against women in 19 countries—13 conflict zones, five countries that are recovering from conflict, and one “additional situation of concern” (Nigeria).

     But at least one human rights group has questioned how all-encompassing the report can possibly be, with the numbers of attacks on women actually incredibly low in many of the included conflicts.

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