Violence against Women, Bleeding Wound in the Syrian Conflict
Date:
November 2013 | Attachment | Size |
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| Euromedrights-VAW-Syria-Nov-2013.pdf | 1.26 MB |
Overview of contents:
- Introduction
Challenges to document VAW in Syria
Legal framework
- Violation of the Rights to life
Killings of women in the context of military fighting
Execution of women during massacres
Use of women as human shields
- Sexual violence as a weapon of war
Surrounding climate of terror from sexual violence
Rapes during incursions and raids
Rape during kidnapping
Rape inside governmental prisons and detention facilities
Sexual harassment and humiliation during detention
- Arbitary detention, enforced disappearances and abduction
A. Governmental facilities
Denial of fair trial and incommunicado detention
Torture of detainees
Health conditions and lack of access to medical care
Violations of the right to visit for detained women in prisons
B. The growing phenomenon of abduction of Syrian women
Random kidnappings
Use of women as hostages
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