The adviser to the gender subcommittee for the peace talks, Pilar Rueda, sees impunity as a major contributor to the continued use of rape as a weapon of war. Though the FARC and Colombia’s government have almost reached a peace agreement which would end over 50 years of bloodshed, these new figures indicate that sexual violence against women is actually increasing. ![]() Women leaders and human rights defenders are particularly vulnerable, especially those who work with displaced communities and survivors of sexual violence related to the conflict. The figures also show the majority of sex crimes, 53%, were committed by members of paramilitary groups and 39% of the perpetrators were leftist FARC or ELN guerrillas.Ī 2012 study by Amnesty International described sexual violence as a “defining part” of Colombia’s conflict women are often targeted to terrify communities and force them to relocate, to take revenge on enemies, to control the sexual and reproductive rights of female fighters, or to exploit women and young girls as sexual slaves. Of the 13,600 individuals estimated to have suffered from war-related sexual violence, the Victims’ Unit National Register shows that 93% of those individuals are women, and 560 are minors, reported newspaper El Tiempo. Recent figures released by Colombia’s Human Rights Office show that during the sixteen months that elapsed between January 2015 and April 2016, at least 785 women became victims of sexual violence due to the conflict. ![]() At least one woman is raped every day on average in Colombia as a result of ongoing acts of sexual violence committed in the context of the country’s armed conflict.
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