The 4 year old victim was reportedly gang raped by five men, none of whom was arrested.

The draft Act, however, leaves a channel of help for victims of marital rape.

Traditional elders also encourage practices such as marriage between a rapist and his victim.

Approximately 20 per cent of the women who use the telephone hot line are victims of rape.

They should also ensure that the requirement of absence of consent does not involve further victimization of the rape victim.

The consequences of rape on the victim's physical and mental state are terrible.

As mentioned above, the rape victim is required to undergo a medical examination at a governmental medical legal institute.

Underlining, in this context, the need for the protection of the rape victims and the provision of effective guarantees of privacy and confidentiality of the rape victims, and desirous of facilitating their participation in the proceedings of the International Tribunal and ensuring that further traumatization will be prevented,

The Centre was established in 1993 and serves approximately 80 women per month most of them are domestic violence victims, but they also include some rape victims.

It contains a gender neutral definition of rape, which moves away from the concept of consent that has historically made rape survivors feel as if they were the ones on trial.

It also provides for increased protection for the survivor's privacy and procedures to make sure that the rape survivor has an opportunity to place information before the court at the bail hearing.

Innocent children are raped, tortured and mutilated.

Such a revision should also require that victims of rape and their families be compelled to report such cases.

She spoke about the difficulty, particularly for rape victims, of coming forward and then seeing that the perpetrators went unpunished.

Cases of lesbian women being targeted for rape specifically because of their sexual orientation in order for the aggressor to prove the victim's womanhood have also been documented.

This project includes training for health care practitioners and local women's organizations, support for hospitals that treat rape victims by providing medical and surgical care, and voluntary and confidential post rape counselling and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.

Cases documented by women's organizations indicate that approximately 72 per cent of the rape victims are minors.

Rape victims are ostracized from their community and face extreme prejudice when seeking help.

According to the report, 500 rape victims were treated in the region between October 2004 and February 2005.

France reported that compensation paid to victims of serious bodily harm (temporary unfitness for work for over one month), to those permanently unfit for work and to rape victims was not subject to a ceiling it was determined by the Victims apos Compensation Commission. .

Often the victims were raped by people known to them neighbours, domestic workers and relatives.

Victims of sexual violence are often victims of non sexual violence as well many rape victims from the Rwandan genocide have lost husbands and other family members, finding themselves without social support structures.

Even where rape victims are not criminalized, the social stigma of

With regard to rape, the most frightening aspect of the statistics relates to the profile and age of the perpetrator and victim.

In recent years, FIOM has provided aid to victims of incest, rape and sexual assault and to mothers of children with incest experiences and partners of victims.

In August, cases of rape included three victims aged 4, 8 and 17, in Makamba and Muramvya provinces.

Account must also be taken of the social climate and the fact that rape victims face exclusion and rejection.

(ii) Services for special categories of victims, such as children, and, when necessary, to victims of particular offences, such as rape, domestic violence, organized crime and violence based on sectarian hatred

Moreover, victims are often reluctant to report instances of rape and other human rights abuses for fear of being stigmatized.

If the purpose of the abduction is to kill, harm, rape or indecently assault the victim, force the victim to engage in prostitution or extort something from the victim or from others, the penalty shall be life imprisonment.

The Ministry of Justice, together with the police and women s organizations, had initiated a special assistance programme for victims of rape and sexual assault.

The service should have appropriately qualified staff, with the specialization necessary to ensure treatment sensitive to the needs of different categories of victims, e.g. rape victims, children, aged persons, minority members and disabled persons.

This often made the woman who was raped feel as if she was the one on trial.

In addition, it was held that the sexual history and social behaviour of the victim before the crime is a decisive factor in sentencing.

2. Expresses its outrage that the abominable, deliberate and systematic practice of rape has been used as a weapon of war in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognizes that rape in this context constitutes a war crime, and calls for protection and care of rape victims, respect for the special needs of victims of sexual violence in the investigation and prosecution of alleged violations, and punishment of those responsible

This provision applies equally whether or not the rape victim is a prostitute.

(h) Facilitate the return of female victims of rape, prostitution or trafficking to the mainstream of social and economic life Islamic Republic of Iran

The non governmental organization Rape Crisis has been working with women victims of violence in Cape Town for 20 years.

It was also shocking to learn from agencies on the ground that there is a widespread practice of counter prosecution against rape victims.

In some cases, very young children were raped by HIV infected people who believed that they could be cured of the condition in that way.

It reiterated its position, established in previous case law, about the weight given to the testimony of young women who make allegations of rape, by stating that t he testimony of a rape victim, who is young and of tender age, is credible and deserves full credit, especially where the facts point to her having been the victim of a sexual assault.

Another crime kit, with fewer samples required, is available for examining rape victims who might know the perpetrator.

Agreement was reached on form 8, the mechanism for recording medical evidence from victims of rape, to ensure access to medical care for victims of sexual violence and to end the harassment of medical providers to victims of sexual and gender based violence.

Deeply alarmed at the situation facing victims of rape in armed conflicts in different parts of the world and any use of rape as a weapon of war, in particular in Bosnia and Herzegovina,

The crime of rape has for the first time become the crime against humanity.