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For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’

The civil suit, filed in a New York court by attorneys that include human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, references a $778 million US Department of Justice.

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Yesterday Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: “Sexual violence is morally abhorrent, it is illegal, and yet it is still happening all around the world.” And so he carried on his speech at the opening of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative conference. It was more platitude than anything else.…

Exclusive: Angelina Jolie calls for stronger campaign to stop sexual violence in conflict including in Ukraine

In 2014, Nadia Murad was captured, alongside many other Yazidi women, by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in the Iraqi town of Sinjar. She was held hostage, enslaved, tortured and raped, before escaping to Mosul and making her way to Germany. After sharing the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with…

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: During their rampage, fighters massacred thousands of Yazidi men in Iraq and abducted 3,000 women and young girls, many of whom were kept captive as sex slaves

Amid evidence of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, the foreign affairs minister of the Netherlands, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the EU Commissioner for Justice recently hosted the Ukraine Accountability Conference.

Clashes first erupted on Sunday when the Iraqi military launched an operation to clear the area of YBS forces.