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    Posted on August 21st, 2012

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    Rwanda amends law to protect women’s right to legal abortion

    Rwanda amends law to protect women’s right to legal abortion

    The Rwandan government has lifted its reservation to a provision of the Maputo Protocol, the only international treaty that explicitly guarantees the right to legal abortion. Under the Protocol, the Rwandan government is now required to “protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the fetus.”

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    Posted on June 28th, 2012

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    Margot Wallström & Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff: Ending Rape as a War Tactic

    Margot Wallström & Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff: Ending Rape as a War Tactic

    “For the first time ever, the declaration issued by participating Heads of State and Government at the NATO Summit in Chicago last month included a paragraph on sexual and gender-widespread violence. This is not only a recognition of the changing nature of conflict, but also an acknowledgement by NATO of the importance of the role of women and girls in building sustainable peace.”

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    Posted on May 13th, 2012

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    Launch of Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict

    Launch of Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict

    May 6 marked the launch of the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict, a collaboration between Nobel Peace Laureates, international advocacy organizations, and groups working at the regional and community levels in conflict, to demand political leadership to prevent rape in conflict, protect civilians and rape survivors and call for justice.

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    Posted on October 31st, 2009

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    Security Council adopts resolution on sexual violence in armed conflict

    Security Council adopts resolution on sexual violence in armed conflict

    On 30 September 2009, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1888, which demands that all parties to armed conflict take immediate action to protect civilians, including women and children, from all forms of sexual violence, and urges greater measures by States and U.N. entities to combat this scourge.

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    Posted on October 31st, 2009

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    Man accused of presiding over rape of women and girls stands trial

    Man accused of presiding over rape of women and girls stands trial

    Jean-Baptiste Gatete, a former Director in the Rwandan Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, stood trial at the ICTR in October 2009 for his role in the Rwandan genocide. He is charged with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. He is alleged to have presided over pogroms which took place in the Catholic churches of Kiziguro and Mukarange, where thousands of Tutsis were killed and women and girls were serially raped.

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    Posted on October 18th, 2009

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    Attacks on women in DRC grown threefold

    Attacks on women in DRC grown threefold

    CNN reports on the escalating rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anneke van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch said 200,000 women and girls have been raped in Eastern Congo since 1998, and the condition of women has become more dire as the Congolese army has pressed a military campaign against armed groups in the countryside.

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    Posted on August 13th, 2009

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    U.S. response to “epidemic” of sexual violence in Congo

    U.S. response to “epidemic” of sexual violence in Congo

    On the heels of a Washington Post report describing the worsening epidemic of rape in the Congo during a U.S.-Backed military operation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited eastern Congo and unveiled a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence.

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    Posted on August 6th, 2009

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    New York Times reports on male rape victims in DRC

    New York Times reports on male rape victims in DRC

    In “Symbol of Unhealed Congo: Male Rape Victims”, Jeffrey Gettleman reports on the increasing incidence of male rape victims in the Congo.

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    Posted on July 7th, 2009

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    Gacaca sentences two men to life sentences for rape

    Gacaca sentences two men to life sentences for rape

    The Hirondelle News Agency reports that a semi-traditional court in Kigali sentenced on Monday two men found guilty of rape during the 1994 genocide to life in imprisonment in isolation. Martin Habimana and Vianney Habimana were tried by the gacaca court of Nyakabanda.

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    Posted on June 21st, 2009

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    June 16-18 2009: Colloquium on Sexual Violence as International Crime

    June 16-18 2009: Colloquium on Sexual Violence as International Crime

    From 16 to 18 June 2009, an interdisciplinary colloquium focussing on innovations and challenges of empirical and other information gathering techniques to build evidence for the prosecution of cases of sexual violence was held in The Hague. The colloquium also launched the photo-exhibition “The Men Who Killed Me” by Samer Muscati in the lobby of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will remain until the 3rd of July.

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