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A woman carrying a child looks at a wall in Kigali with names of the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

April 3, 2024

Children born of rape: the devastating legacy of sexual violence in post-genocide Rwanda

Myriam Denov, McGill University

The 1994 Rwanda genocide has left lasting scars. Children born of sexual violence and mothers have shown immense strength in overcoming their histories of violence.

Hunger: aid agencies are predicting a famine in Gaza if aid isn’t allowed to reach more than a million displaced Palestinians as a matter of ugency. EPA-EFE/Haitham Imad

March 7, 2024

Gaza update: starvation and sexual violence are being used as weapons of war

Jonathan Este, The Conversation

A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.

A memorial is left inside a bomb shelter near the Supernova music festival, where eyewitnesses reported Hamas members gang-raping and killing women. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

January 11, 2024

Hamas’ use of sexual violence is an all-too-common part of modern war − but not in all conflicts

Dyan Mazurana, Tufts University and Anastasia Marshak, Tufts University

Sexual violence can be used as a weapon of war. Hamas’ use of sexual violence was likely meant to show its power over Israeli women and girls and to humiliate Israeli men and Israel’s military.

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Myriam Denov
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Children, Families and Armed Conflict, McGill University
Anastasia Marshak
Assistant Research Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
Dyan Mazurana
Research Professor of Global Affairs, Tufts University

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