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Rape serves as a potent weapon of war because of the shame and psychological harm it inflicts on its victims. And as with other forms of attack in conflict settings, humanitarian workers are not immune. 

While some surveys of aid workers on the subject have been conducted, they focused largely on expatriate staffers, who in most cases make up less than ten percent of the humanitarian workforce. It is highly probable that a great many more national staff women are unreported victims.

This blog, provide sound statistics to underline the importance of reporting, tracking, and sharing security incident information and calls for more in-depth research and data collection to better understand the scope of the problem, including more systematic, large-scale representative surveys of aid workers across the humanitarian sector.

At the field team level, aid workers and security professionals must also be willing to overcome their instinctive avoidance and discomfort, to have the difficult conversations necessary to manage risk better.
 

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