Women and girls are also victims of genocide and enslaved for labour. In times of conflict, women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to rape, forced marriage, forced impregnation, forced abortion, torture, trafficking, sexual slavery, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). “Armed conflict caused by government forces, pro-government militias, and rebel groups, directly and indirectly, affects women’s and girls’ rights. As part of Soroptimist International’s (SI’s) series of blogs discussing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), SI UN Representative, Liliana Mosca, examines the topic of women and armed conflict, looking at both the legal framework that has developed in the years since the BPfA and the lived reality of women in the time of COVID-19.
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