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It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflicts. There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians.
It has nothing to do with sex everything to do with power. He's done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children. I have met survivors from Afghanistan Somalia and they are just like us.
With one crucial difference, we live in safe countries. With doctors we can go to when we're hurt police we can turn to when Iran and institutions that protects us.
They live in refugee camps or bombed out streets in areas where there is no law no protection. And not even the hope and justice. They struggle to keep their children safe.
And if they admit being raped they are likely to face more violence and social rejection. Other survivors live in countries where war is over but the peace brought no justice.
And as an international community, we are responsible for that. We need to shadow that. And make justice the norm not exception for these crimes.
We need political will replicated across the world. And we need to treat this subject as a priority. We need to see real commitment to go after the worst perpetrators.
To find proper protection for vulnerable people and step in and helped the worst affected countries. We need all armies Peacekeeping troops and police forces to have the prevention of sexual violence and conflict as part of their training. More than 100 countries will be represented at this summit.
And we are asking them to take these measures. But we really do need your help. This whole subject has been taboo for far too long. War zone rape is a crime that thrives and silence and denial. It steam the heart of survivors. It causes feelings of shame and restlessness.
It feeds ignorance. Such as the notion that race has anything to do with normal sexual imposes. But most of all it allows the rapes to get away with it.
They feel above the law, because the law rarely touches them. And society tolerates them.
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said the destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens and all of our communities. And this evil will continue ruin the life of millions of people, unless we make this summit a turning point. And we can. We must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence and the shame is on the aggressor.
We must work together and do an unprecedented ways across borders and religions. Bringing governments and people together and tackling the problem from every possible angle. And by doing this we can end the use the rape and sexual violence as a weapon in war once for all. We can, we really can do it. Thank you so much for joining us today. For joining us the fight.
