My Heart is Cut: Sexual Violence by Rebels and Pro-Government Forces in Côte d'Ivoire
- Document number
- 1513
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- My Heart is Cut: Sexual Violence by Rebels and Pro-Government Forces in Côte d'Ivoire
- Author/publisher
- Human Rights Watch
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism, Prostitution, Rape, Sexual harassment,
- Summary
- The report details the widespread nature of sexual violence throughout the five-year military-political crisis. The report, which is based on interviews with more than 180 victims and witnesses, documents how women and girls have been subjected to individual and gang rape, sexual slavery, forced incest and other egregious sexual assaults
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