Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations 2013, para. 34
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- Violence against women and girls is a form of discrimination prohibited by the Convention and is a violation of human rights. Conflicts exacerbate existing gender inequalities, placing women at a heightened risk of various forms of gender-based violence by both State and non-State actors. Conflict-related violence happens everywhere, such as in homes, detention facilities and camps for internally displaced women and refugees; it happens at any time, for instance, while performing daily activities such as collecting water and firewood or going to school or work. There are multiple perpetrators of conflict-related gender-based violence. These may include members of government armed forces, paramilitary groups, non-State armed groups, peacekeeping personnel and civilians. Irrespective of the character of the armed conflict, its duration or the actors involved, women and girls are increasingly deliberately targeted for and subjected to various forms of violence and abuse, ranging from arbitrary killings, torture and mutilation, sexual violence, forced marriage, forced prostitution and forced impregnation to forced termination of pregnancy and sterilization.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2013
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- CEDAW General Recommendation No. 30, Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations (2013), para. 34.
- Paragraph number
- 34
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