Day 10 - Elimination of Rape as a Weapon of War

04/12/2018

Rape and sexual violence is used as a deliberate weapon of war in the same way guns and tanks are, to terrorise civilian populations, destroy ethnic groups or religious or political opponents, cheaply, silently and devastatingly... – William Hague, UK Foreign Secretary, 2012. 

The Irish ‘Future we Need’group, which is a faith based group with members from the Columbans, Franciscans, Josephites, Mercy, Salesians and Presentations, are today giving information on the elimination of rape as a weapon of war. 

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