3/9/2024 0 Comments Sexual violence in armed conflict: global overview and implications for the security sector,It is irrefutable that when conflict reaches civilian areas, one way to evaluate its impact is to examine how women and girls are disproportionately and adversely affected. The UN Secretary-General recently in his report on “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” (2017), identified forty-six armed groups linked to sexual violence, inter alia, systematic rape, forced pregnancy, forced prostitution, sexual mutilation, sexual slavery, and forced marriage in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Burundi, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Īlthough CRSV is everything but new in conflicts, research holds that it is being ‘weaponized’ in several conflicts across Africa. The Protocol, referred to as an “offspring” of the main Charter, was aimed at addressing some of these growing concerns stemming from the continuous violation of women’s rights, including CRSV. One of the tenaciously unaddressed issues in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (“the Charter”) was its failure to protect women from conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), not only deem a harmful practice but also constituting crimes against humanity and war crimes especially when committed during conflict as “part of widespread or systematic attacks against civilians” or “as part of a plan or policy”. Twenty years after its adoption and eighteen years of enforcement, as a ‘home-grown’ women’s human rights treaty, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women (“the Protocol”) is still problematic for the most part.
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