While the history of wars and conflicts is replete with systematic
incidents of sexual violence against vulnerable women, modern-day wars
have witnessed large-scale indiscriminate deployment of rape as a
“weapon” of war by combatants. In recent armed conflicts — such as in
the former Yugoslavia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sudan, the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone and Rwanda — the
widespread use of rape as a tool of warfare has become a conspicuous
phenomenon. Read more
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