![]() The UN focused particularly on this issue in the 1990s, in a desire to give priority to human rights and particularly to women and girls” rights. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a latecomer to the concerns of international organizations. When looking at conflicts and wars through a gendered lens, gender appears as a power relation: men are exposed to brutality and violence as fighters and combatants whereas women are seen as victims. The United Nations (UN) Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery attributes gender to socially constructed variables for each sex in a particular society and culture, identifying differences in roles, responsibilities, opportunities, needs and constraints. We understand gender in a hierarchical and relational way, imbricated in a normative binary relation: male/female, masculine/feminine. Wars and conflicts, such as violent clashes between two groups, shall be studied through a gendered lens. ![]()
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