I will never forget the survivors whom I have met or what they told me &mdash...

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I will never forget the survivors whom I have met or what they told me — the mother in Goma whose five-year-old daughter had been raped outside a police station in plain view, or the Syrian woman I met in Jordan last week who asked that I hide her name and face because she knew that if she spoke out against the crimes against her, she would be attacked and possibly killed.

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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

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