Peacekeepers Must Protect Women

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Aids-Free World

Stephen Lewis, the co-Director of AIDS-Free World, delivered remarks on sexual violence at the May, 2008 Wilton Park Conference: Women targeted or affected by armed conflict: What role for military peacekeepers? He asserted that peacekeepers and force commanders alike have to take sexual violence much more seriously, citing the cases of Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Peacekeepers Must Protect Women, AIDS-Free World (2008).