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Iraq In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) launched a genocide against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority group indigenous to northern Iraq. ISIS executed around 5,000 Yazidi men and boys and took more than 6,000 women and girls captive and subjected them to forced marriages, rape, and other forms of conflict-related sexual violence. […]

Colombia Durante más de cinco décadas, Colombia ha enfrentado un conflicto armado interno que ha afectado a más de 9 millones de personas. Guerrillas, grupos paramilitares, carteles del narcotráfico y fuerzas del Estado han luchado por el control del territorio, con graves consecuencias para la población civil. La violencia sexual relacionada con el conflicto ha […]

Colombia For over five decades, Colombia has faced an internal armed conflict affecting more than 9 million people. Guerrillas, paramilitaries, drug cartels, and State forces have all fought for territory, with severe consequences for civilians. Conflict-related sexual violence has been used against women, men, and children. Afro-Colombian, Indigenous communities and LGBTQI+ people have been specifically targeted. Perpetrated by all actors, including the State and non-state armed […]

Nigeria Since 2014, Boko Haram and splinter groups have used sexual violence as a weapon of war in northern Nigeria, and kidnapped schoolgirls to propagate their extremist anti-education rhetoric. In captivity, victims are subjected to rape, forced marriages, forced pregnancies, sexual slavery, and other forms of conflict-related sexual violence. After escaping or being rescued, the […]

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence committed on a massive scale for decades. Estimates vary, but somewhere between 250,000 and one million women have been raped since the beginning of the armed conflicts in the 1990s. Only a small […]

Central African Republic Since 2002, the Central African Republic (CAR) has endured some form of armed conflict, with sexual violence used indiscriminately by all parties. Most victims have never seen justice. Our work in CAR started in 2020, when research for our Global Reparations Study began, and ended with the conclusion of our interim reparative measures project in […]

Guinea On 28 September 2009, a peaceful demonstration against the military junta at a sports stadium in Conakry was violently repressed by security forces. Many people were subjected to sexual violence. In 2024, former government officials, including president and junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara, were convicted by a national court for crimes against humanity, including […]

Syria Syria’s Assad regime used sexual violence as a systematic weapon of oppression during its rule, including against thousands of people detained in prisons and secret facilities across the country. These violations were also committed by other parties throughout the 14-year conflict. With the fall of the regime in December 2024, thousands of people who […]

Cambodia Conflict-related sexual violence committed by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) remains mostly unacknowledged. Forced marriages were prevalent and were imposed on both men and women. Rape and sexualised torture were also widely committed.  The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), established by Cambodia and the United Nations, sought to prosecute those responsible for the crimes committed during the regime’s rule, when an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people were killed. […]

Nepal From 1996 until 2006, thousands of people were subjected to conflict-related sexual violence in a civil war between the armed forces and rebel groups who later became the Communist Party of Nepal. Women belonging to Indigenous groups, so-called lower castes and impoverished communities were particularly targeted. Sexual violence was committed in police and army custody […]