Posted on 05/10/2015 6:33:03 AM PDT by SJackson
Zainab Bangura urges Security Council to integrate protection of women into counter-terrorism agenda.
UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Bangura, said Thursday, in a UN briefing to journalists, that sexual violence against females is being committed strategically and systematically by Islamic State operatives in Syria and Iraq on a regular basis, according to the UN News Center.
“Women and girls are at risk and under assault at every point of their lives,” Bangura said of females living in the shadow of IS.
The UN representative traveled to the Middle East mid-to-late April to meet with women who escaped the wrath of Islamic State fighters. She talked to women in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, and heard tales of forced and underage marriage, captivity, sex trafficking, and sexual violence.
Bangura said young girls were categorized, stripped, and shipped naked to slave bazaars to be examined and distributed amongst IS fighters.
“ISIS has institutionalized sexual violence and the brutalization of women as a central aspect of their ideology and operations, using it as a tactic of terrorism to advance their key strategic objectives,” Bangura described.
She told the story of a young woman who was married over 20 times, forced to undergo surgery to restore her virginity at the end of each coerced union.
Sexual violence, according to Dangura, was not only used to satisfy promises made to fighters, but also as a means to humiliate dissenters, draw intelligence information, and dismantle traditional familial and social norms so that the structure of a new caliphate could be formed.
Bangura requested that the UN Security Council beef up its counter-terrorism agenda with a clause that would work for the protection and empowerment of women in hostile, conflict-driven zones.
She also expressed concern that children born out of rape, unable to register, would give rise to a generation of "stateless children," whose vulnerability could give rise to future extremism.
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I believe that is one of the reasons the Muslims do this.
Liberals don't care.
More evidence that sharia law is satanic and will not be tolerated here.
For sure. Where’s the hue and cry from the femi-nazis on this? Never hear a word from them. Too worried about income equality or something. IPOS!
This sounds really serious. Somebody needs to start a Hashtag campaign.
Feminists liberals will “rejoice” that ISIS is not making their new female slaves wear bras. semi-sarc
I disagree. I think liberals care. They just don’t care enough to risk their own lives to fix it.
“’Girls are being stripped naked, examined in slave bazaars’”
WELL! If you think that’s bad, there was a story last week about a white couple in Baltimore that saw a group of 5 young blacks - and they CROSSED THE STREET to avoid walking past them. Now that’s HUMILIATION. Being stripped, examined, and sold - chump change, time to move on.
(at least how the media sees it)
What matters is that there is a pizzeria in Indiana that doesn't want to cater a homosexual wedding.
If there were one.
And if they catered.
We need to ask our President to get the military to fight these thugs. My God, these are helpless girls!
I’m sure our military will fight this!!!
Will our President order them to fight these evil Islamic savages?
And liberals continue to idolize muslim crazies and make excuses for them while at the same time accusing Americans of conducting a War On Women.
Which is the crazier - muslim terrorists or American liberals?
Just where are the feminazis on all this?
Which, being interpreted, means they care about themselves more.
In fact, all they care about is themselves. The "care" that they espouse for the "oppressed" is nothing more than their unconscious personal PR campaign.
oh well,
you know those wild and fun loving mooselimbs.
Obviously, the powers that be don't agree with me.
/johnny
And the Pentagon just recently announced it is embarking on a program to train Syrian rebels who will ‘fight ISIS’.....
I’m just sitting here thinking “do they really have any idea on how to tell a good Syrian rebel from and ISIS zealot?”
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