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UNHCR NEWS STORY Healing the wounds of sexual violence in the

<i>Violence in eastern Congo has forced thousands to flee their homes and led to widespread sexual violence against women < i> UNHCR P Taggart 10 August 2009 <b><u>Healing the wounds of sexual violence in the Congo< u>< b> GOMA DRC August 10 UNHCR Before the fighting started in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Rose and her family lived quiet rural lives She and her husband had three children a small piece of land on which to raise them and a stall on the main road from where they would sell fish With the outbreak of conflict 15 years ago their lives began to unravel Their house was robbed their business struggled The final collapse came when armed men entered Rose s home with the intention of raping her two daughters She pleaded with them to kill her and spare her children quot That s when one of them pulled out a knife and tore my clothes He left me naked in front of my girls and they raped me in front of them quot Rose recently recalled to a social worker at a UNHCR run camp for internally displaced persons in North Kivu Like many victims of sexual violence here Rose has become a regular visitor to the camp s women s center which provides counselling skills training and literacy courses With funding from UNHCR the center seeks to assist and empower women who are survivors of sexual violence infected with HIV AIDS illiterate or otherwise socially excluded It is women like Rose that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to meet Tuesday when she visits a camp for the displaced in North Kivu a region where 400 cases of rape are currently being registered every month Reporting to the Security Council last month UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said that at least 200 000 cases of sexual violence had been recorded in eastern DRC since 1996 The women s center in the Mugunga II camp about 25km west of Goma is run by the organization Women for Women International WWI which works to rebuild the lives of women affec

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Women and girls in Liberia are still vulnerable to sexual assaults and this has posed a serious problem by both the government and women s right organizations Girls and women are dying from

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Portland Metro Domestic Sexual Violence Queer Caucus

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Sexual Violence on Campus

Sexual Violence on Campus Policies Programs and Perspectives Edited by Allen J Ottens and Kathy Hotelling <a href= http champlib champlain edu record=b1089303 >Find it in the Catalog< a>

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Map of Incidents of Sexual Violence 1996 1998

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Many African nations such as Zimbabwe Darfur and Rwanda have been divided throughout history by violent wars between rival tribes These photographs from Zimbabwe are a horrifying reminder to Venetia of her firsthand experiences of violence during South African apartheid As a child Venetia had a caregiver who thought of himself as her black father During apartheid he was murdered for supporting her father His name was Hamilton To find out more about Zimbabwe go to <a href= http www flickr com photos sokwanele >www flickr com photos sokwanele < a> <a href= http www sokwanele com >www sokwanele com< a> Excerpts from the Biography of Venetia Joubert Re human trafficking sexual slavery in Cambodia Thailand and Charity abuse Joubert felt extremely unhappy when she counted at least one Lexus pas by her each second in central Phnom Penh Cambodia in an area funded by Ngo s charity organizations The money from the charity organizations appears to be being used by government officials and the charity organizations themselves and not on the people as the people in the surrounding areas are desperately poor Her suspicions were confirmed when she spoke to a number of charity and social workers as well as local people She noticed many children on garbage dumps sifting for food or goods to sell Joubert felt quite traumatized when she visited several Cambodian orphanages Joubert went to one and found a boy of 9 years old who suffered from cerebral palsy This meant that he was unable to move and merely stared at the ceiling all day The Catholic nuns who looked after him seemed very disinterested in changing his environment for him He also had 6 massive lesions in his lips and his lips were severely bleeding His lips were slit in 6 places When Joubert asked what was wrong they stated he had a fever Joubert researched cerebral palsy and found out that he was suffering from vitamin deficiencies because he had not been fed correctly Joubert offered to help t

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Say NO to violence against women and girls SPREAD THIS CAMPAIGN ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women and promises to remedy this have not been kept UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women s Day 2008 According to one United Nations estimate 113 to 200 million women are demographically missing from the world today That is to say there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth who aren t By that same estimate 1 5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender based neglect or gender based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict We can point a finger at poverty But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women s deaths and suffering the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are missing due to female foeticide the sex selective abortion of girls dowry death gender based neglect and all forms of violence against women The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence Violence against women has gone public whether it is dowry murders the practice of female genital mutilation honour killings sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils rapes and killings in communal and caste violence it is only women s and human rights groups who are protesting the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal Most of the values are insufficiently imagined and fundamentally flawed More than two thirds of the women s populations don t have access to the financial system Poor women are not considered credit worthy Every human being should have the right to credit because if people have money they can change their lives It is true for women Nea

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Physical and Sexual Abuse

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Victory over violence

Follow the link to see what this project was about <a href= http brantfordartsblock ca v1 rel= nofollow >brantfordartsblock ca v1 < a> Each group got a 4 x4 masonite panel and was assigned a letter from quot Peace amp Diversity quot

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