Sexual Violence In Iraq Essay

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Sexual violence most greatly impacts Iraq in domestic abuse,governmental status, and women’s freedom. Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence ,unwanted sexual comments or advances, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim. The sexual violence committed against women and girls by the Islamic State of Iraq is very brutal.

The use of sexual slavery is a tactic of terrorism, t promotes violence, oppression, and human trafficking of females in Iraq. The women and girls in Iraq are viewed as second class citizens without any rights to defend themselves or protection from the government. ISIS
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The men capture innocent women and girls and inflict violent acts of terrorism on them behind closed doors. This act of violence was not started by ISIS but by the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during his military assaults during the Anfal in the Kurdish region in 1987 and 1988. Since that time violence and oppression toward females in Iraq has been used as tactic of oppression. The mothers and their daughters were captured and tortured by ISIS to destroy their communities and and control the populations of the minority religious groups. Treatment of this nature caused them to feel degraded and oppressed. The women and girl’s minds were scattered and they committed suicide because of violent oppression and rape. The Iraqi government allows ISIS to use females that have been kidnapped as sex slaves to pay for the war and be raped by the government officials and groups of ISIS violent men. Oppressive behavior is not civil and should not be allowed by any government. I agree with the Cindy McCain with the McCain Institute for International Leadership who stated in her address to the United Nations that, “This is not a

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