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NEW YORK / SARAJEVO, October 31 (FENA) - The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations marked the 10th anniversary of the Security Council resolution 1888 on "Protecting Women and Girls from conflict-related sexual violence" on Wednesday, raising the issue of sexual violence in conflict.
The resolution is established to tackle conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) as a peace and security issue, while also bearing in mind other serious violations of human rights that occur during armed conflict.
The Security Council established the resolution because it recognized the widespread and systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon or tactic of war, but also to address the social stigmatization issues faced by survivors.
Association "Forgotten Children of War", operating in BiH, was invited to participate in the event to raise the issue of children born of war in BiH. On that occasion, members of the Association Alen Muhić and Nadia Delić Klevstad gave a speech, it is said in a statement from the Association.
Association "Forgotten Children of War", was founded in 2015, but began to work in July 2018 and has had many successful activities so far, such as: attending and addressing at the Nobel Peace Prize program, creating the first historical exhibition "Breaking Free" that captures stories of children born of war and women survivors, membership in the international Born of War network.
President of the Association, Ajna Jusić was the keynote speaker on the topic of "Inclusion of children born of war" at the Stand Speak Rise Up conference hosted by Maria Teresa (Grand Duchess of Luxembourg).
At present, this Association is the only one in the world that tackles the social and legal issues of children born of war and through its activities has raised this issue at the international level.
Association "Forgotten Children of War" made Bosnia and Herzegovina the first country in the world to make systematic and social steps in the social and legal acceptance of this category.
Member of the Association Alen Muhić in his address to the United Nations Headquarters in New York said that he was born in 1993 in Goražde.
"I was born in 1993 at the worst time of the war when no necessities were available to the people. There was no electricity, no water, no food, no heat, no love and no hope. My mother left me two days after my birth, fleeing for life. My biological father is a man convicted of the war crime of rape. I was adopted by a janitor in the hospital where I was born. The Muhić family - these are the people who adopted me at the very peak of the war, when they did not know if they would see the next morning. When there was no electricity, water or food, and they had two daughters already, they took the risk and adopted me. A child who was born of rape. These are the people who gave me unconditional love all these years. All 25 years. People who see me as their very own. I never felt that I was adopted even though I knew well that I was. They gave me everything they could. Today, I am happy to be able to speak freely and proudly of myself to those close to me without shame or embarrassment. I did not get entrapped within the armor of a victim and remain permanently in helplessness, waiting for someone's favor. I am a fighter by nature," said Muhić.
The main goal of the Association is to initiate and present sensitive narratives about the aftermath of war affecting its innocent victims: children born of war. There are three subcategories of children born to war; they are mostly children born of war rape, sexual exploitation and trafficking in women and girls in conflict and post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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