UN mission records more than 370 cases of war-related sexual vience in Ukraine

Such data are given in the report of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), Ukrinform reports.

The campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Vience” has been launched in Ukraine. The HRMMU has documented 376 cases of conflict-related sexual vience invving 262 men, 104 women, 10 girls and 2 boys.

The UN mission works closely with survivors to document cases of conflict-related sexual vience (CRSV), and their testimonies are crucial to ensuring justice, bringing perpetrators to justice and preventing the further spread of this scourge.

This form of gender-based vience affects pele of all genders, with more than half of the documented cases invving men – mostly those who were tortured in captivity in the occupied territory or in the Russian Federation.

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“Conflict-related sexual vience is a viation of international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law. Preventing this kind of vience and bringing perpetrators to justice is a shared responsibility based on the human rights obligations of states,” the HRMMU emphasized.

As Ukrinform reported, the all-Ukrainian action “16 Days Against Vience” started on Monday.