Posted in APRD, Central African Republic, ICC, UNICEF, bandits, child soldiers, children, human rights, sexual violence, war crimes on Jun 2nd, 2008
Radhika Coomaraswamy, Secretary General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflicts concluded on Saturday a six-day mission to assess the conflict’s impact on children in CAR and Chad.
After a two day visit to Chad, Radhika Coomaraswamy came to CAR to meet young victims of abduction, and rebels suspected of recruiting child soldiers. She met […]
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Massive sexual crimes in Central African Republic will not go unpunished
(ICC): Jean-Pierre Bemba, charged by the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Central African Republic, was arrested on 24 May in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium.
Mr. Bemba is chairman of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC), an armed group which […]
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Often ignored, sometimes treated with discretion, sexual violence remains a sensitive issue in the Central African Republic. Although thousands of women have been victims of physical, psychological, and social trauma, their suffering remains largely silent.
Some women were raped by soldiers from neighbouring armies; others were attacked by rebels or national soldiers in conflict areas. Many […]
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Several thousands of women and young girls have endured rape and other sexual violence in the conflict-torn north of the Central African Republic (CAR). Research suggests that sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) strikes well over 15 percent of women and girls in the region.
Rape cases are being reported in northern CAR on a […]
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Gender inequalities in the Central African Republic persist. They are so deeply ingrained that significant positive change will probably take decades. Some facts from a government briefing paper on gender issues in CAR below. (It is well worth looking at other sources as well.):
The share of illiterate women (68 percent) is substantially higher than that […]
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From ReliefWeb: Today, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced the decision to open an investigation in the Central African Republic: “My Office has carefully reviewed information from a range of sources. We believe that grave crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the Court were committed in the Central African Republic. We will conduct our own independent […]
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