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Take Action: Stop Wartime Sexual Violence
Tell the UN to address the ever-growing problem of sexual crimes during civil unrest.
Goal: 10,000
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Progress: 1,285
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We all know war is destructive, that it can leave nations and people alike crippled for years to come, both physically and metaphorically. But the unrest associated with war can also have unseen implications.
Sexual violence is often a product of war that is obscured by war's more publicized aspects. For example, in the Congo, women and girls are being raped and tortured while the country experiences civil war. And women in feuding Burma are constantly frightened for their lives because the Burmese army systematically rapes them as punishment for insurgents' actions.
This grisly, underbelly of war is devastating not only to women but to entire nations.
Write to the UN imploring it specifically campaign for women's safety everywhere during unrest.
Dear UN representatives:
We must stop the cycle of sexual violence that war inevitably produces. All around the world where nations are experiencing civil unrest, women are being raped and assaulted.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a civil war continues to ravage the nation, girls as young as infants are raped. In Darfur, armed men rape women in front of their whole families. In Burma, women have been raped and burned alive.
Extreme sexual violence is a product of war that must be dealt with immediately. Innocent women and girls' lives are being destroyed as the wartime strife continues.
Please make sure you are addressing the needs of our women worldwide who are at risk of sexual violence in their countries.
Thank you for your consideration.
Petition Signatures
May 15, 2013
Jeffrey Mercer
May 15, 2013
Carol Collins
May 15, 2013
Linda Borell
May 15, 2013
Barbara Azzalina
May 13, 2013
Loraine Lindsey
May 11, 2013
Vikram Seetharaman
May 9, 2013
Barbara Cote
May 8, 2013
Tracey McGill
May 8, 2013
Elizabeth Melton
May 5, 2013
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May 5, 2013
sharon davidson
May 3, 2013
rosanna ammendolia
May 3, 2013
Pamela Spacek
May 3, 2013
Marcia Mitcheltree
May 3, 2013
RONNIE DAMARIO
May 3, 2013
Herbert Hager
May 3, 2013
LYNNE GORE
May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
Gabriele Ansay
May 2, 2013
daniela laudati
Apr 28, 2013
Jocelyne FAROUAULT
Apr 27, 2013
Stacy Saxe
Apr 25, 2013
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Sexual violence is never right in any country, under any circumstance! Please be an advocate for women and girls!
Apr 24, 2013
shelby petty
Apr 24, 2013
Ernst Mecke
Apr 23, 2013
Barbara Policriti
Apr 23, 2013
misty martinez
Apr 22, 2013
Isa Villanen
Apr 21, 2013
Yolanda Rivera
I am a rape victim and I will go to my death fighting and supporting anything to stop rape!!
Apr 20, 2013
Nanci Rogers
Apr 20, 2013
Stacey Calvert
Apr 19, 2013
Lindsey Hollands
Apr 18, 2013
baez stephanie
Apr 15, 2013
elissa gornbeck
Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013
alan kardoff
Apr 14, 2013
Marie-laurence Yans
Apr 13, 2013
Trudy Berkey
Apr 12, 2013
Sarah Collins
Apr 11, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 11, 2013
Norman Hood
Apr 11, 2013
Anne Gongora
Apr 10, 2013
Anita Youabian
Apr 10, 2013
Tiffany Aguayo
Apr 10, 2013
Kay Lowe
Apr 10, 2013
Diane Wynne
Apr 10, 2013
David Randall
Apr 10, 2013
Casey Phillips
Apr 10, 2013
kathie dean
Apr 10, 2013
John Moszyk
