War

Source: New York Times  By KEN JAWOROWSKI An American Special Forces team in Afghanistan in 2001, with Hamid Karzai, center, the country’s future president, as seen in “Legion of Brothers.” CreditGravitas Ventures You’ll have to wade […]

Timothy Snyder Misunderstanding the Holocaust has made us too certain we are ethically superior to the Europeans of the 1940s. Faced with a new catastrophe – such as devastating climate change – could we become […]

ICTJ Cristián Correa /Senior Associate, Reparative Justice Program In my work on reparations around the world, I have seen the suffering of victims of sexual violence committed during armed conflict, political violence, or state repression, as […]

We have witnessed progressive developments regarding the judicial investigation and prosecution of crimes of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), assumed that it exclusively concerns women & girls. But no!

Through conflict after conflict, sexual violence persists, not just as individual crimes but as a weapon of war, from the Balkans to the Congo, from Liberia and Sierra Leone to present day Iraq.

The GlobeandMail REVIEWED BY CHRIS BERUBE Special to The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Oct. 11 2013 In March, if everything goes smoothly, Canada will finally be out of Afghanistan. The bulk of our military operations […]

Dr. Massouda Jalal opendemocracy.net With more fundamentalists predicted to win seats in the forthcoming election, the future is likely to see once again the use of religion as an instrument of extreme gender based oppression […]

Source: What’s in the Blue Insights on the work of the Security Council On Monday (24 June), the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level open debate on women, peace and security with a focus on sexual […]

The Telegraph After five years in Kabul, Ben Farmer reflects on the frightening reality of daily life in the city Ben Farmer in Kabul, where he lived for five years Photo: John Wendle By Ben […]