RESOURCE: Q&A: How the U.S. "No Abortion" Prohibition on Humanitarian Aid Violates the Rights of Women Raped in Armed Conflict

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Global Justice Center

The Global Justice Center's (GJC) August 12th Campaign seeks to address the near universal failure to provide the option of abortion to girls and women raped and impregnated in armed conflict. This discriminatory treatment of women rape victims is a serious breach of the laws of war, including the Geneva Conventions.

Please click here to view the Global Justice Center's Q & A on the makeup and consequences of the "No Abortion" clause in US Humanitarian Aid provision.

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