Some politicians have described rape victims as adventurous.

Spanish women were commonly victims of assault and rape.

So called rape shield laws should be used to protect alleged victims.

According to European Union estimates, 20,000 women in Bosnia alone were victims of rape.

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

Braga also commented on what could be a factor of intimidation for many rape victims

In recent years, several jurisdictions have created rape shield legislation, which protects rape victims who testify from intrusive cross examination that can have adverse psychological effects.

RTS is a cluster of psychological and physical signs, symptoms and reactions common to most rape victims immediately following and for months or years after a rape.

Reception facilities within the police force for minors victims of rape, be they boys or girls.

(c) To support programmes to eliminate rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, and design programmes to provide assistance to all victims of rape

The biggest fear of rape victims in Darfur, however, is that they will never find a husband.

For women who have been victims of rape, there are no monetary benefits, memorials or mourning rituals.

In her post, Teves says she decided to post about it to create awareness about rape victims

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

In the wars now savaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, rape victims also take most of the blame.

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

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

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.

Also affirming the need to provide all necessary assistance to victims, including children born as a result of rape,

Rape brings stigma, shame, and reluctance on the part of victims to speak out about what happened to them.

Instead, we have stereotypes about how real rape victims must look and act in order to be taken seriously.

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

This means that even though Brazil has made progress on paper, the system is still failing rape victims in practice.

Seven rape cases were reported in Gitega, Ruyigi, Kirundo, Cibitoke and Ngozi provinces, the victims aged between 3 and 19.

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

However, as indicated at the previous meeting, many measures were in place to help rape victims, in cooperation with the police.

MONUC has participated regularly in regional commissions on sexual violence as a means of strengthening support for child victims of rape.

A new Government policy to help the victims of rape and to investigate crimes of rape has been adopted, after long and intensive discussions with the United Nations, but its implementation is still deficient throughout Darfur.

When victims are not kept hidden, it becomes much clearer that rape can happen to anyone grandmothers and students, homemakers and prostitutes.

They are subject to, and victims of extortion, rape, murder, and even organ theft, their bodies left to rot in the desert.

(d) To address the long term consequences faced by victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including legal discrimination and social stigmatization, as well as the effects on children born as a result of rape

The Criminal Code prohibited rape, and marital rape was considered rape.

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.

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

With your determination and your support, the children victims of rape shall learn again to live a normal life, restructuring themselves physically and morally.

Sometimes, the gunmen force their victims fathers, brothers, and husbands to rape them, or the women to eat the flesh of their murdered relatives.

Prison rape is rape occurring in prison.

However, as the report also notes, taking into consideration that most rape victims don't file a report, the number could be as high as 143,000.

In November, 11 rape cases were reported in Makamba, Ngozi, Kayanza, Cankuzo, Mwaro and Bujumbura rural provinces, in which 7 of the victims were minors.

The increase may be the result of greater awareness of the assistance provided to rape victims by the NGO, rather than an actual increase in cases.

When demonstrations against sexual violence erupted in Delhi, the Indian president s son denounced the protesters as dented and painted. Some politicians have described rape victims as adventurous.

On 17 November 2004, the independent expert met the women and girls admitted to the hospital in Goma under the DOCS programme of assistance to rape victims.

The law requires all public hospitals to treat rape as an emergency and offer the victims diagnosis and treatment of injuries, exams to detect STDs and pregnancy, social and psychological support and full disclosure of the victims legal right to abort.

In Bindisi, for example, several pregnant victims of rape were detained on charges of adultery and, although eventually released, they were beaten and sexually assaulted while in detention.

Most of the rape cases are not reported, either because victims fear reprisals, or because of cultural reticence, fear of stigmatization and lack of confidence in the justice system.