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Rachael Burford

Women raped in Ukraine war ‘will not have to wait decades for justice’, says Lord Ahmad

Women have been raped during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an MP in the country has said

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Ukrainian women who have been raped by Russian soldiers will not have to wait decades to see the perpetrators brought to justice, the Prime Minister’s special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict vowed on Wednesday.

Lord Tariq Ahmad is to lay out the Murad Code — a new global code designed to drastically improve the ability for survivors of sexual violence in war zones to get justice — at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.

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