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Systematic violence has marked women from ethnic minorities in Colombia’s peripheries

July 10, 2026 by Adrianis Beltran

Between 1958 and 2022, the Observatory of Memory and Conflict at the National Centre for Historical Memory recorded 14,380 women who were victims of sexual violence within the framework of the Colombian armed conflict. Of these, 87 % were Afro-Colombian. The figure is not an archival detail. In the first three months of 2026, the … CONTINUE READING →

Israel on the UN Blacklist for Sexual Crimes in War: the State That Blocked Its Own Investigation to Avoid Being Investigated

May 29, 2026 by Gabriel Schwarb

On 29 May 2026, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres published the annual report on sexual violence in armed conflicts. For the first time in the fifteen years since the mechanism was established, the name of Israel appears in the annex listing actors considered credible suspects of committing, or being responsible for, systematic patterns of rape … CONTINUE READING →