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International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Communities can be safer if they are provided opportunities to plan against all forms of violence. There is a link between community readiness to address conflicts and vulnerability to COVID-19. On this day attention is drawn to the repercussions of war, conflicts and unrest on societies. We have an on-going campaign we called the “Well Born Child Campaign,” amidst COVID-19 pandemic we urge everyone to promote dignity and respect for human beings and sanctity of life at all times. Stop wars and deal with COVID-19.  We share with you the UN messages here as well. Conflict-related sexual violence should expand to refer to abuses beyond rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, forced marriage and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men, girls or boys that is directly or indirectly linked to a conflict. It ...

DRC Woes: Ebola, Measles and Violence The Ebola outbreak has spread to a third province in the DRC. A story by Tim Cooks of the Global Health Network (GHN) 2 new cases, including 1 death, were recorded in South Kivu, more than 700 kilometers south of the outbreak’s source, according to Reuters . A 24-year-old woman died on Thursday after visiting Beni in North Kivu, STAT reports via AP . Her 7-month-old child is being treated. The woman had been vaccinated after being identified last month as a “high-risk contact” of someone infected with Ebola, Reuters reports. There have been more than 2,800 cases recorded since the outbreak began more than a year ago, according to a report in the H5N1 blog . Adding to DRC’s woes: Measles has infected more than 145,000 people and killed more than 2,700, Médecins Sans Frontières reports today. The organization warns of “an alarming lack of a response” to the country’s worst measles epidemic in nearly a decade.  Armed groups ...

This article was picked up from Uganda Human Rights Watch Website. The human disaster of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which has devastated the populations of countries worldwide, is having an increasingly disproportionate effect on women and girls. Women now constitute the majority of infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East. In addition to an increased physiological susceptibility to HIV infection, violations of women’s rights heighten their vulnerability to AIDS. Women’s subordinate position in marriage; unequal access to economic opportunity, medical resources, information, and education; and, discriminatory property and legal rights, are just some of the factors that sustain the escalation of the pandemic, and make women particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. Unremedied domestic violence, which is itself a widespread and chronic abuse of women all over the world, plays a critical role i...