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International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict Launches
Today PHR, Nobel Peace Laureates, international advocacy organizations, and groups working at the regional and community levels announced the launch of The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict.
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Worldwide campaign to stop rape, gender violence in conflict gets underway
PHR, along with other aid organizations, pledges support as the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict launches.
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Sexual Attacks in Syria Mapped by Women's Media Center Using Crowdsourcing
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director of PHR, comments on the utility of crowd sourcing in tracking sexual attacks in Syria, reports the International Women's Media Foundation.
Medical Evidence of Widespread Torture in Darfur Released by PHR in PLoS Medicine
Today’s issue of PLoS Medicine features a peer-reviewed study led by PHR that provides rare forensic medical evidence of widespread, sustained torture and other human rights violations by the Government of Sudan (GoS) and allied Janjaweed forces against non-Arabic-speaking civilians in South Darfur.
New tool helps U.S. group track sex crimes in Syria
A U.S. women's group is using new crowd-sourcing techniques to track rape and other sexual violence across Syria in one of the first efforts to monitor assaults against women during military conflict in real-time.
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