Bosnia’s ‘invisible’ children of rape demand rights
20 July 2018 |
3:06 pm
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, children born to mothers who were raped during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995 are emerging from the shadows. Conceived in violence, they grew up marginalized. Now in their mid-twenties, some of them are fighting for recognition.
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