Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict

  • Nobel Women's Initiative

Summary

This report is a collection of opinions from a conference of 130 female activists, security experts, academics, journalists, and corporate leaders . It showcases a collection of new strategies to end sexual violence as a weapon of war, and argues that sexual violence should not be lost in the standard argument of making women safer in war but should instead earn explicit attention. In addition to the strategies, the report collects personal stories and challenges from the conference participants.

Citation

Nobel Women’s Initiative. Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict. Ottawa: Nobel Women’s Initiative, 2011.

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