Refugees and displaced people, victims of terrorist groups

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CAP International, organizer, and Scelles Foundation are preparing to participate in the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in New York. The two associations will speak as part of a Side Event on Wednesday 16 March in the presence of Mrs. Laurence Rossignol, Minister for Families, Children and Women's Rights and Zainab Hawa Bangura, the UN Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflicts. The topic of this intervention placed in the official agenda will focus on "Refugees and displaced persons, victims of terrorist groups: women and girls exposed to a continuum of sexual violence and exploitation." Grégoire Thery, Managing Director of Cap International, and Secretary General of the Mouvement du Nid and Yves Charpenel, President of the Scelles Foundation, will be among the speakers. Mrs Nadia MURAD BASED TAHA, Yezidi survivor of sexual exploitation by DAECH, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, will provide testimony and Zoya Rouhana, director of KAFA Association

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