Sentences with phrase «rape as a weapon of war»

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

Every week at Burma Campaign UK we receive more reports of how the Burmese Army is using gang - rape as a weapon of war.

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So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

According to Tearfund's Katie Harrison, who has visited many conflict and post-conflict situations around the world, rape is «constantly used as a weapon of war».

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

In February 2013, the assistant U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Erika Feller, cautioned that the conflict in Syria is «increasingly marked by rape and sexual violence employed as a weapon of war to intimidate parties to the conflict destroying identity, dignity and the social fabrics of families and communities.»

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

Not only are the minerals gathered through abusive means and slave labor, they're also gathered where rape is used as a weapon of war over the mines.