How to respond to genocide and others crimes against humanity: a commentary on Robin May Schott's presentation

Abstract

The horrific effects of sexual violence as a weapon of war are perhaps nowhere as present as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There are tens of thousands of mutilated, violated women, damaged physically and psychologically for life. In 2007 there were 27,000 such cases in North Kivu alone. The ages of patients at Panzi hospital range between three and 75. According to John Holmes, head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), the sexual violence there is the worst in the world.