EXPOSING HIDDEN WAR CRIMES:

Sexual violence has become a major strategy that has turned men into weapons and women into battle grounds in times of conflict. Yet conflict resolution strategies and peace building interventions have done little to bring to account those that ruthlessly commit such crimes.

In a consultative meeting held in Nairobi in March 2007, Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD) brought together 45 civil society organizations, gender experts, politicians, decision makers from the Great Lakes region of Africa to discuss the challenges brought by the lack of justice and punishment of sexual crimes in times of conflict.