Investigators are increasingly using technology and user-generated content to help identify and persecute perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict zone.
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The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
The UN’s Genocide Convention turns 70 this month. It’s time for the world to reaffirm its commitment to the international law and show the moral courage of our convictions.
There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
The prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Professor of Post Conflict Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in Public Law, Queen Mary University of London
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President Emeritus and Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, former Attorney General of Canada and Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), The Nordic Africa Institute
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Professor, Faculty of Law, and Western Research Chair in International Criminal Justice, Western University