The Men Who Killed Me

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  Posted on October 31st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  rape, United Nations

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 31st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  ICTR, rape, Rwanda

  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

  Written by Sandra

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  Congo, rape

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on August 13th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  Congo, rape

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on August 6th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  Congo, rape

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on July 7th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, gacaca, 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.

• News & Events

  Posted on June 21st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Add new tag, crime, post-genocide, rape

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on May 23rd, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  Congo, DRC, rape

  UN reports growing number of women falling victim to rape in DRC

  

  The United Nations humanitarian wing is urging greater protection for civilians in the South Kivu province of the DRC, which has witnessed a surge in sexual violence since the beginning of this year.

• News & Events

  Posted on April 15th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Congo, human rights watch, rape, United Nations

  Human Rights Watch Reports on Recent Rape in the Congo

  

  Rwandan rebel forces, government army soldiers, and their allies have raped at least 90 women and girls since late January 2009 in the volatile North and South Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Human Rights Watch.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 11th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, ICC, peace talks, rape

  Letter from Darfuri Women to the African Union and Arab League

  

  On 4 March 2009, Human Rights Watch posted a letter from 28 women who had fled the Darfur conflict. The women welcome the ICC warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.

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• “Graphically, and without doubt, this book makes the case that rape is no lesser a crime than murder.”

  Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire (ret.), Senator
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