{"id":449952,"date":"2025-09-25T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:22:10","slug":"addressing-conflict-related-sexual-violence-ukraine-draws-lessons-from-bosnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449952\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Ukraine Draws Lessons from Bosnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 2025, Ukraine had documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gp.gov.ua\/ua\/posts\/rezultati-diyalnosti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">376 cases of conflict-related sexual violence<\/a>, CRSV, against 239 women, 137 men, 19 girls and one boy.<\/p>\n<p>The crimes include rape, sexual torture, forced nudity and other violent acts, which occurred in territories occupied by Russian-backed rebels since 2014, but most of them after Russia\u2019s 2022 full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, Ukraine adopted a law which provides survivors of CRSV with the opportunity to receive interim reparation payments during an active war, becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsurvivorsfund.org\/latest\/articles\/ukraine-adopts-law-to-recognise-and-provide-reparations-to-survivors-of-conflict-related-sexual-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first country<\/a> to implement reparations for survivors of CRSV during an ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the first reparation laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina came into force a decade after the 1992-95 war ended.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to Balkan Insight Premium to read the full article.<\/p>\n<p>Please login to your account below if you are already a Premium Subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tBuy Premium Subscription<\/p>\n<p>Our Premium Service gives you full access to all content published on BalkanInsight.com, including analyses, investigations, comments, interviews and more. Choose your subscription today and get unparalleled in-depth coverage of the Southern and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"buyPremium\"><a title=\"Buy Premium Subscription\" href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/premium-subscription\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy Premium Subscription<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"contactPremium\">If you have trouble logging in or any other questions regarding you account, <a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please contact us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of September 2025, Ukraine had documented 376 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, CRSV, against 239 women, 137&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[151392,151393,2000,299,151394,109325,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-449952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-bosnian-war","9":"tag-criminal-justice-efforts","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-gender-justice","13":"tag-reparations","14":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115263972566496281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}