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17/06/2016

Women and the differential impact of violence in the context of Peru's internal armed conflict (DIEEEO62-2016)

This article views from a gender justice perspective the differential impact in the context of the Peruvian armed conflict which took place between the years 1980 and 2000. It examines the use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war systematically carried out in association with other serious violations of human rights such as arbitrary detainments, torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial executions, chiefly by government agents, in the scale as well as in the differentiated nature of the individual and structural effects, and on a smaller scale by members of subversive groups. It is a reality which reveals that the poorest women, who are from rural areas, discriminated against and excluded from the system for reason of gender have been made invisible as subjects of rights with constant underrepresentation as victims in a framework of structural impunity and lack of mechanisms to make their fundamental rights recognized in internal and international regulations.

Author: Rocío Yudith Canchari.

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