Human Pain. An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Rape on the Lives of Women from Ayacucho Violated During the Non-International Armed Conflict
During the internal armed conflict, not all human rights violations were publicly denounced with the same vigor. Human rights protection organizations/institutions placed greater emphasis on defending the right to life as the principal right transgressed by the warring parties, treating sexual violence as "collateral damage." The result was that during the armed conflict, these organizations did not denounce sexual assaults with the same intensity as other human rights infractions. (Excerpt from the introduction).