
Showing posts with label Margot Wallstrom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margot Wallstrom. Show all posts
Friday, October 1, 2010
Margot Wallstrom and the Security Council
Margot Wallstrom, the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict informed the United Nations Security Council this week regarding the mass rape of men, women, and children in Kampal, Democratic Republic of the Congo that occurred this summer in areas patrolled by United Nations peacekeepers. Wallstrom has spent much of the last month touring the DRC taking testimony from victims. Wallstrom and others have found fault with the lack of resources devoted to the U.N. DRC Mission and response of the peacekeepers involved in it. While it seems like, a far away problem the Congo is becoming an increasingly important supplier of rare earth minerals to the United States.

Sunday, August 15, 2010
Margot Wallstrom is putting focus on the Problem of Rape in Combat

Margot Wallstrom, U.N. Special Representative on Sexual violence in Conflict has been touring Africa this summer to uncover the level of rape occurring in five conflict zones. In a CNN article she discusses important issues such as the socialization process that child soldiers are forced to endure that makes them more easily molded into a rapist. Wallstrom has been documenting the use of rape in combat as it has been supplanting other methods of violence on the battlefield.It is incredibly important work that will pave the way towards war crimes trials and assistance for the victims of these crimes.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Peacekeepers in the Congo
The U.N. Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Margot Wallstrom was in the Congo two weeks ago to advocate for an extension of the U.N. mission in the country. All though peacekeepers have been linked to some atrocities in the country, it is widely believed that if the U.N. is forced to leave conditions for women and girls in the country will worsen. Wallstrom has an uphill battle to fight in a country whose conflict has been the deadliest since World War II, which was characterized by a recent article in Foreign Policy magazine as being less of traditional war and more akin to "organized banditry".
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