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The Silent Conflict: 25 November 2008 Sexual violence is always wrong, never excusable and, far too often, still suffered in silence. But when sexual violence is used as a widespread, systematic and deliberate weapon of war the international community has a moral responsibility to protect the victims and prosecute the perpetrators. The crimes of sexual violence recorded in conflicts ranging from the Former Yugoslavia and Peru to Rwanda, Liberia and currently Darfur and the DRC are amongst the most horrific war crimes ever committed. We urgently need to find more and better ways to bring an end to this epidemic of conflict-based sexual violence and the UK has a vital role to play in formulating, promoting and implementing such policy. |
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Globalising Human Rights: 18 March 2008 The report, Globalising Human Rights: A Conservative Agenda for UN Reform, has been submitted to the Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague MP. It analyses the performance of the UN Human Rights Council and calls for a “culture change” within the UN. Countries belonging to the Human Rights Council should be required to address their own human rights records before election, a Democracy Caucus should be established within the UN to balance other influential blocks, and “in the most extreme cases, the threat of expulsion – or suspension – can be used as leverage more effectively than it is now”. |
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Conservative Party Human Rights Group Hearing on child soldiers The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the forcible conscription of child soldiers, April 08, House of Commons. |
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Hearing on rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war |
