{"id":2172,"date":"2011-05-13T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:10","slug":"elections-and-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/sexual-violence-workshop\/sexual-violence-and-conflict-resources\/elections-and-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"SGBV and Political Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n SGBV and Political Violence\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

News Reports<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Rights Group: Rape, Sexual Abuse ‘Pervasive’ in Ivory Coast.’  Joe DeCapua.  VOA News.  14 April, 2011.  To read the article click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence.’  IRIN Africa.  15 January, 2008.  To read the article click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politically Motivated Rape in Zimbabwe.<\/a> Research and Advocacy Unit.  2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: Political Rape and the Zimbabwean Crisis<\/a>.  Claudia Forster-Towne and Charlotte Sutherland.  Consultancy Africa Intelligence.15 April, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racial Targeting of Sexual Violence in Darfur<\/a>.  John Hagan, Wenona Ryman-Richmond, Alberto Palloni.  American Journal of Public Health, 99:8.  August 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Examination of the International Understanding of Political Rape and the Significance of Labeling it Torture<\/a>.  Hannah Pearce.  International Journal of Refugee Law.  14:4.  2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Resources<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Concern over Rape in Libya.’  A United Nations Radio broadcast about sexual violence in North Africa.  To listen  to this broadcast click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2009, the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) partnered with IDASA (An African Democracy Institute), the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and the Women\u2019s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) to conduct a survey to find out women\u2019s views on transitional justice (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Reports ‘Rights Group: Rape, Sexual Abuse ‘Pervasive’ in Ivory Coast.’  Joe DeCapua.  VOA News.  14 April, 2011.  To read the article click here ‘Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence.’  IRIN Africa.  15 January, 2008.  To read the article click here Reports Politically Motivated Rape in Zimbabwe. Research and Advocacy Unit.  2011. Sexual Violence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2168,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-2172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2172\/revisions\/5634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}