Moreno&Cia Abogados

The freedom press, the democratization of the social media and the growing body of data from the wars are bringing into the light the sexual violation and torture of civilian women and girls during periods of armed conflict. This issue had been generally ignored by historians, politicians and the rest of world even it exists since the Ancient Greek, Roman Empire  and is a manifestation of the low value of the women nature and their rights.  The situation has come to the discussion as a result of a big effort provoked in part by the media coverage of the sexual atrocities committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia where were an estimation of 20.000 to 50.000 women raped during war and the Rwanda Genocide with 250.000 to 500.000 women raped and enslaved and after decades of intensive awareness-raising by women’s activists around the world.    (Ward, J. Marsh, M. 2006).  “The term “conflict-related sexual violence” refers to rape, sexual sl...