Innlegg på `Missing peace symposium`
(WorldNews Norway)

Statssekretær Marianne Hagens åpningsinnlegg på Missing Peace Symposium 2017 - om hvordan rettsforfølging av seksualisert vold i konflikt påvirker fredsbygging. Check against delivery Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, This is a major call to action: To end the agonising abuse. Children being raped. Girls being impregnated by the enemy. Women being violated in front of their families. Gradually, the devastating stories of the women are being echoed by the stories of men. Different, but the same. Physical and mental wounds. Shame and loneliness. Unbearable pain. Every single day, sexual violence is used as a weapon of war. Domestic violence increases as tensions grow....