"New Report Outlines Untold Stories of Women and War"

  Women News Network

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According to the United Nations and The International Campaign Against Honor Killing at least five thousand women and girls worldwide are murdered each year to preserve ‘family honour’. Many of these women are killed for making personal choices that don’t match the limits placed on them by their families and local society.

The report specifically covers the topic of rape and gender based violence as a weapon of war. While UN Resolution 1325 stresses the importance of women in the peace making process, asking for the protection of all women who face global war as refugees, as victims of rape and war violence and as victims of landmines left in the shadow of war, the UNFPA report gives detailed outlines of the reasons why women play an important role in to help the world understand the impact of gender and the atrocities of war.

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