Rape survivors struggling for recognition
The perennial fight for wartime rape survivors’ rights.
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“They are in the same place that they were in before the international community invested millions.”
Nela Porobić Isaković, WILPF“It makes them a group that is forced to be identified for the rest of their lives with the war crime they suffered in order to exercise their vested rights.”
“We should give them more time to gather the strength they need for the step of applying, not limit them within a symbolic period, just to say that we’ve done something.”
Ardiana Shala, activist“The achievement of reparations for persons who survived wartime sexual violence should be accompanied by efforts by the entire society to recognize the problem and to fight against stigmatization and secondary victimization."
Rosa Center for Women Victims of War
Nidžara Ahmetašević
Nidžara Ahmetašević was K2.0’s regional editor. Nidžara has a Ph.D in media assistance in post conflict countries from the University of Graz, Austria. Her focus as a journalist is on media development in post-conflict countries, hate speech, human rights, feminism and migrations.
This story was originally written in Serbian.