Nobel Peace Prize award reminds of imperative to support wartime sexual violence survivors
In Kosovo, such support still lacking two decades after war.
|2018.10.30
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Why has it taken so long for the state to finally turn its eye toward wartime rape?
Women’s bodies became the symbolic battleground on which to fight for an independent Kosovo; they were also the living reminder of sullied honor and disgrace for the Kosovar nation.
Kenzie Anderson
Kenzie Anderson recently completed her MA in Gender Studies at Central European University where her academic focus was on gender-based violence and the gendered effects of conflict. She has lived in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia working on human rights and gender equality.
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This story was originally written in English.