NY: Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Peace Negotiations: Implementing Security Council Resolution 1820
— June 22, 2009 – NY Conference
— UNIFEM: “Sexual violence has become a method of fighting in modern war, with devastating impact on women and their communities. Failure to address sexual violence in the peace processes, to treat it as a war crime and prosecute it means that it spills over into peace time, with countries like Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo currently seeing an epidemic of rape. Addressing sexual violence in peace processes is a way of signaling that sexual violence is unacceptable in the post-conflict era.”