The Ultimate Assault: Charting Syria's Use of Rape to Terrorize Its People
A new project tracks reports of sexualized violence in Syria, where the attacks appear to be orchestrated by government security forces.
"The data we have so far suggest sexualized violence is being used as a tool of war, although possibly haphazardly and not necessarily as an organized strategy," said Dr. Karestan Koenen, associate professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the lead epidemiologist on the mapping project. "These reports indicate that post-conflict intervention will need to address the consequences of sexualized violence for victims."