Yet another organization demands action to end sexual violence against women and girls. What is the UN going to do to stop the violence?
The Wild Wild Eastern Congo is a prime example of hollow demands by every organization who can issue a report or resolution. The violence continues!
Are these demands worth the paper they are written on? Probably not!
Security Council demands action to end sexual violence as a tactic in war.
19 June 2008 – The Security Council today demanded that all sides to armed conflicts around the world stop using violence against women as a tactic of war and take much tougher steps to protect women and girls from such attacks.
In a resolution adopted unanimously after a day-long debate on women, peace and security, Council members said women and girls are consistently targeted during conflicts “as a tactic of war to humiliate, dominate, instil fear in, disperse and/or forcibly relocate civilian members of a community or ethnic group.”
The effect is to also prolong or deepen conflicts and to exacerbate already dire security and humanitarian conditions, particularly when the perpetrators of violent crimes against women go unpunished for their actions.
Philomene Omatuku Atshakawo, Minister of Gender, Family and Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where sexual violence has reached epidemic levels in the east of the country, said such violence was leading to the feminization of poverty.
Female victims were no longer able to work the land or work at all, she said, adding that as a result the Government was trying to introduce a range of measures -- economic, security and psychosocial among them -- to ameliorate the situation.
PRAYER:
Dear God, please come and deliver your women and girls from this violence. Raise up another Moses-like figure to set your people free. AMEN.
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