violence against women armed conflict statistics

In recent years, international human rights law has recognized a right to compensation for women who have suffered sexual violence during an armed conflict. Judicial cases of sexual violence during armed conflicts have made it abundantly clear that rape constitutes a weapon of war, employed to degrade and subordinate women, punish those who are politically active and, through their bodies, humiliate the enemy. It is not difficult to understand, then, how this depoliticization weighs particularly heavily during armed conflicts, as demonstrated by the historical and legal reality of women victims of sexual violence in wartime. The cruel repression of political protests, led by women, in Iran is the latest example of such a struggle. as figures who occupy, contribute, use, obtain visibility and recognition in society is a phenomenon still underway. Yet, the constitution of women as political subjects, i.e. The processes of democratization and the extension of suffrage have brought women back into the political community, albeit progressively and not without the help of corrective mechanisms of representation, such as the so-called 'gender quotas'. Women, on the other hand, have long been 'de-politicized' or considered essentially irrelevant in the places and moments of exercise of sovereign decision-making. Who is the ideal subject claiming rights and making political decisions? Philosophical reflection on the forms of organization of the political has taken place through the identification of the universal male subject, who builds the nation, the state and its functioning mechanisms. Legal feminism has taught us to reflect on how we conceptualize the political subject, that is, how we think of the individual as the hero of the public sphere. THE INVASION OF UKRAINE REMINDS US ONCE AGAIN OF THE URGENCY OF CREATING MECHANISMS FOR THE PROTECTION AND INCLUSION OF WOMEN WITHIN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS RESPONSE STRATEGIESīy Graziella Romeo (Department of Legal Studies) Violence against women in armed conflicts

Violence against women armed conflict statistics