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Gender-based violence (GBV) intersects with multiple vulnerabilities including gender inequality and poverty, and is closely linked with social trauma. The risk of GBV and sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) increases in armed conflict, humanitarian crisis, and displacement. Combatting against GBV including sexual violence has been identified as a global challenge with international agencies alerting to the gravity of the situation noting “more than one third of women and girls globally will experience some form of violence in their lifetime” and that this experience has adverse overall health, education, and livelihood effects on the survivors (United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [UNOCHA], 2020, p. 15). Men and boys are also targeted by this brutality. The Rome Statute of International Criminal Court identifies SGBV among the “crimes against humanity” (Article 7 (g)) and refers to GBV as a specific theme for the processes of investigation, prosecution, as well as the protection of victims and witnesses (International Criminal Court, 2011).
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Ozcurumez, S. (2021). Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Social Trauma. In: Hamburger, A., Hancheva, C., Volkan, V.D. (eds) Social Trauma – An Interdisciplinary Textbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47817-9_29
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