SEMA (“Speak Out” in Swahili) – the Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence, initiated by Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation, unites female survivors of wartime rape from 21 countries across all continents. They are joining force to end rape as weapon of war.  CHIBOW ECR Amra Delic, a human rights activist, together with survivors from the Association Helping Victims and S...

Sabine Lee and Susan Bartels have published an article in The Conversation entitled, ‘They put a few coins in your hands to drop a baby in you’ – 265 stories of Haitian children abandoned by UN fathers'. The article explores the research that Sabine and Susan have thus far undertaken in Haiti regarding children fathered by peace-keeper personnel. The link to the article is, 

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The Forgotten Children of War Association from Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the 10-year anniversary of the establishment of the mandate on sexual violence in conflict. They also took part in a Workshop on Advancing Reparations for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence at the UN Headquarters in New York

The Mandate on Sexual Violence in Conflict was established in 2009 and is dedic...

CHIBOW researcher Michal Korhel has opened an exhibition called, “Děti nepřítele? – Kinder des Feindes?“ (Children of the Enemy). Which presents pictures from CHIBOW born of Czech-German relationships and highlights the discrimination they have faced throughout their lives.

The two nationalities had cohabited peacefully for centuries until the atrocities of the Second World War and its aftermath....

A warm congratulations to CHIBOW internal ethics lead Marie Kaiser and director of training Heide Glaesmer, who have been awarded the Hans-Heimann-Preis of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics for Marie’s doctoral work on Growing up as occupation child in post-World War II Germany: Specific developmental conditions and their psychosocial consequences.

This prize...

In her book Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century published in 2017, Sabine Lee, CHIBOW's network coordinator, explores the life courses of children born of war in in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. The book is not only based on extensive archival research but also on oral hi...

On the 30th March, I was fortunate enough to be in Tuzla, to attend the premiere of U IME OCA / In the Name of the Father (ITNOTF), a docu-dance theatre production by Darrel Toulon and the Alpha Group, a co-production with the Tuzla National Theater, which brings to light the experiences, and voices, of children born of war in Bosnia.

Travelling to Bosnia from London earlier on the 30th, I had...

On March 25th, the people of the Baltic countries commemorated one of the most tragic moments in their history. 70 years ago, on March 25th 1949, tens of thousands of innocent people were loaded into freight trains meant for animals and were forcefully deported to forced-settlements and GULAG prison camps in the depths of the Soviet Union. In one day, nearly 100 thousand people were deported from...

In 2014, Darrel was invited by the Austrian Embassy, to work with the Kosovo National Ballet. Upon arrival in Pristina, and after speaking to some of the dancers, he realised that he had to change course, and use the wartime survival stories from their child-hood. He created YOUR STORIES, MY STORY as a dance piece with documentary character. There was no choice. This was the beginning of a new cha...