Addressing The Intergenerational Effects Of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
The post Addressing The Intergenerational Effects Of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. [Stock photograph] A woman and her child rest on June 26, 2019, in Benin City, at one of the … More shelters of the Society For the Empowerment Of Young Persons (SEYP), an organisation that rehabilitates and reintegrates women returning from Libya carrying young children often born as the result of rape. (Photo credit: by FATI ABUBAKAR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is a crime which affects all aspects of victims/survivors’ lives, with consequences which are far reaching and long-lasting. CRSV may cause physical and psychological trauma, and stigma, among others, all which affect victims/survivors and their families for generations. Many survivors remain silent due to fear of reprisals, lack of support, and the stigma placed on them instead of the perpetrators. CRSV is a crime which destroys the social fabric of entire communities for generations to come. The consequences can be magnified where CRSV results in pregnancies, often leading to further societal rejection of children born in these circumstances. Despite various international initiatives and efforts, the crime continues unabated, and is perpetrated across all situations of conflict and atrocity crimes. While some situations receive some attention, with media coverage, documentation efforts, investigations and prosecutions, others continue in the darkness. For example, in a recent statement in June 2025, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Ms. Pramila Patten expressed grave concerns over the escalating levels of sexual violence being inflicted upon women and girls amid the worsening gang violence in Haiti. As she emphasized, the situation has reached a breaking point: “These heinous crimes are overwhelmingly concentrated in areas under gang control, where State presence is virtually nonexistent. In many instances, sexual violence is being used deliberately and systematically to assert dominance and punish communities.” The situation in…
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[Stock photograph] A woman and her child rest on June 26, 2019, in Benin City, at one of the … More shelters of the Society For the Empowerment Of Young Persons (SEYP), an organisation that rehabilitates and reintegrates women returning from Libya carrying young children often born as the result of rape. (Photo credit: by FATI ABUBAKAR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is a crime which affects all aspects of victims/survivors’ lives, with consequences which are far reaching and long-lasting. CRSV may cause physical and psychological trauma, and stigma, among others, all which affect victims/survivors and their families for generations. Many survivors remain silent due to fear of reprisals, lack of support, and the stigma placed on them instead of the perpetrators. CRSV is a crime which destroys the social fabric of entire communities for generations to come. The consequences can be magnified where CRSV results in pregnancies, often leading to further societal rejection of children born in these circumstances. Despite various international initiatives and efforts, the crime continues unabated, and is perpetrated across all situations of conflict and atrocity crimes. While some situations receive some attention, with media coverage, documentation efforts, investigations and prosecutions, others continue in the darkness. For example, in a recent statement in June 2025, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Ms. Pramila Patten expressed grave concerns over the escalating levels of sexual violence being inflicted upon women and girls amid the worsening gang violence in Haiti. As she emphasized, the situation has reached a breaking point: “These heinous crimes are overwhelmingly concentrated in areas under gang control, where State presence is virtually nonexistent. In many instances, sexual violence is being used deliberately and systematically to assert dominance and punish communities.” The situation in…
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