Sexual violence is a human rights violation | Mayaa SH | INKZOID FOUNDATION | RG KAR.

Sexual violence is a human rights violation. All people and all communities are affected by sexual violence.Sexual violence is rooted in systemic oppressions that shape our society, including but not limited to supremacy, racism, ableism, sexism, and homophobia.Access to support, advocacy, and medical care in the aftermath of sexual violence is similarly impacted by systemic oppression.In order to eliminate sexual violence, incidents of rape and barbaric assaults we must create a culture that actively fights for equity and opposes oppression in all its forms.Trauma is a subjective experience and that this experience can be very different depending on the individuals.Besides acknowledging historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, and other forms of trauma and their impact on rape survivors, especially vulnerable and indigenous survivors and those who are most marginalized is very important.Rape is one of the crimes and social problems that is somewhat regarded as a community’s least priority although the victims suffer from grave physical, mental, and emotional consequences.The most striking effect that rape can produce in a victim is the thoughts or tendencies of committing suicide. Because of trauma, self-pity, and seclusion, rape victims often feel that there is no longer hope and they could no longer recover and that they are not worthy of living. It is time to provide the education and information and encourage discussions that will change society’s attitudes towards rape and find ways to eradicate this intolerable social issue once and for all.