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Rights experts call for greater global action to end child sexual exploitation and abuse |

·November 21, 2022·2 min read

Millions of boys and girls worldwide continue to be fall prey to these crimes, they noted, stressing the importance of healing and justice for victims and survivors. Their appeal comes in a statement to mark the first commemoration of the World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child...

‘I will never stop telling my story’: Confronting victim-blaming for sexual assault |

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·July 20, 2022·7 min read

“A blue dress, black tights and boots. That’s what I was wearing,” said Jessica Long, a sexual violence survivor who has been campaigning for the rights of survivors, for the past six years. “That’s what I was wearing the night I was drugged. I was raped. And I was left...

Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’ |

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·June 18, 2022·4 min read

In his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, commemorated on Sunday, Secretary-General António Guterres also observed that perpetrators rarely face the consequences of their actions. “It is the survivors who carry the burden of stigma and trauma throughout their lives, often doubly brutalized by...

Reports of sexual violence in Ukraine rising fast, Security Council hears |

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·June 7, 2022·2 min read

Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, recalled her recent visit to Ukraine and outlined the elements of a recently signed Framework of Cooperation on the Prevention and Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, which seeks to strengthen accountability and combat those abhorrent crimes. “Too often have the...