OSCE Condemns Use of Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

Organizations › International Organizations ♦ Published: June 20, 2022; 14:31 ♦ (Vindobona)

Reports of sexual violence against women and girls in the Ukraine war have been circulating in the media for some time. Now OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid has spoken out and called for an immediate end to these crimes. Read on if you want to know more.

Women in particular have to struggle with sexual assault in armed conflicts. / Picture: © © Alissa Everett 2022

OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid recently called for an urgent end to the use of rape and other sexual crimes as a tactic of war in Ukraine and other parts of the OSCE region and beyond.

This was triggered by reports of systematic sexual violence against women and girls in war-torn Ukraine. In a fortnight in April alone, some 400 cases of sexual violence were reported…

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