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Moreover, this sexual violence happens both in conflict and peacetime. In fact, conflict only increases the problem but actually, the root cause is that women's sexuality has been taken as a site for power struggles between men and women.

— Christine Butegwa

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Central to our success is keeping and building new feminist autonomous spaces.

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