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Rape Now Being Prosecuted As Weapon Of War

Published date: 
11 May 2009
Local and national women's organizations In Colombia say there are thousands of cases of sexual violence - by right-wing paramilitaries and leftist guerrillas - that go unreported by women too afraid to talk. But now, the groups are campaigning to make women aware of their rights as victims and to push prosecutors to question paramilitaries about sexual violence.
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