- The global campaign to fight against sexual violence is on and steps are taken to keep the decorum going
- Even in the war zone areas from the Congo to Somalia and Syria to Sri Lanka the crime against women and children were going on before a few years
- Physical and sexual assault had become common owing to the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators
- Geneva Conventions and the special tribunals to try crimes of genocide and breach of humanitarian law established in the 1990s are not effective
- International Criminal Court (ICC) face hurdles to bring the criminals to justice
- United States government refuses to come under The Hague court is deprived of the remarkable authority to the world’s foremost superpower could have brought to it
- In the London Summit 150countries signed a protocol to end sexual violence; investigation of a particular case remains confidential
- African victims of rape and violence seeking asylum in the U.K. have been subjected to harassment has been reported during the summit
- The moral issue was how women victims suffered was described in the UN Security Council by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on the subject
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/continue-the-conversation/article6146511.ece
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