Rape during the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia Many women and men, including minors, have been victims of the deliberate use of sexual humiliation, sexual torture and rape while in the custody of Government authorities throughout the span of the unrest and conflict in Syria (from 2011 – 2014)
How years of sexual violence in Syria have impacted civilians Thousands of men, women and children are known to have been sexually abused by Assad’s forces during the war A report published by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network in 2013 said
SGBV_paper_FINAL_(A-HRC-37-CRP-3)_EN - UN Human Rights Office In detention, women and girls were subjected to invasive and humiliating searches and raped, sometimes gang-raped, while male detainees were most commonly raped with objects and sometimes subjected to genital mutilation
A Rape Case Highlights Sexual Violence in Syria The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic has repeatedly reported that rape and other forms of sexual violence, against men as well as women and children, are perpetrated widely in government-controlled detention facilities by agents of the state
CRSV: The Syrian Civil War - The Gender Security Project The International Rescue Committee has indicated that rape has been a “significant and disturbing feature” in the Syrian Civil War, and attributed the displacement of 600,000 women out of the war zone to the prevalence of rape and sexual assault (Fitzpatrick 2016)
In Syria: From Rape to Donations – and Justice Absent Kidnappings, rapes, and murders of women in Syria have become stories that flood social media, only to fade from public memory without clear accountability Victims’ legal rights are being replaced by spectacles of sympathy, pity, and “donations ”