The United Nations classified rape as a war tactic. The US-sponsored resolution was adopted unanimously by the 15-member council. The report noted that rape is used to displace populations, demoralize the enemy. Rape was declared a crime against humanity.
Various speakers identified former Yugoslavia, Sudan’s Darfur region, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Liberia as conflict regions where deliberate sexual violence had occurred on a mass scale.
The report also called on the United Nations to develop procedures to reduce rape by United Nations troops who commit rape during peace keeping missions.
Ban leads call for greater efforts to end ‘silent war’ of sexual violence in conflict