These are two very relevant and important questions.
Has sexual violence also become accepted in post-conflict situations? Certainly, it has lived on in post-conflict situations, and this has deeply affected those societies in countries that have experienced long civil wars. Of course, it will never be the same in a country where many young people have been recruited as child soldiers, for example, and maybe have had to rape a family member, a mother or a sister, and then have had to kill their mother or sister in front of their other family members and their villages, or perform other violent acts against their family members. This lives on for generations.
It is also important to see progress. The Security Council has decided this is part of the peace and security agenda. This is something they are willing to use all their weaponry to fight. We've also had these resolutions pointing to solutions. We are formulating protection of civilians in almost all the new mandates for peacekeepers. We are training peacekeepers. We are doing so much more in recognizing this as a plague and something we have to deal with.
I think you have both, but it has to do with the role of women and the respect for human rights. It is important to see this not solely as a women's issue, as I said before. It's a human rights issue. It is not cultural. It is not even sexual. It's criminal, and that is how we have to treat it.
You are also right in acknowledging the role of religious leaders. They are engaging more and more. We are also able to mobilize more men in the fight against sexual violence. So far this has been very problematic, because women carry the shame and the stigma of having been victims of sexual violence. Very often they are not allowed back into their families or their communities. They are extremely traumatized by this. We are also trying to reach out to religious leaders, to community and village leaders, to discuss with them what they can do to deal with the problem of the stigma. We have not been that successful in doing so yet, but we are continuing to target religious organizations because they play a pivotal role in many of those countries.