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    La violencia sexual como arma dentro del conflicto armado : específica referencia del delito de esterilización forzada
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2021) Medina Alzate, Valeria; Álvarez Álvarez, Juan Carlos
    Sexual violence has been part of armed conflicts throughout human history. Occasionally perpetrated as a final act of humiliation against the losing side, in other occasions as a vengeance of similar acts, sometimes as a terror strategy used on civilian population to create more chaos in the middle of a conflict. The term is used to characterize forced sexual acts, using coercion, power abuse or psychological violence. It can affect men, women, girls, boys and teenagers. Its execution makes part of a general abuse and violence context, which includes murder, kidnapping, child reclutement, looting, etc. This sexual violence in armed conflicts includes: "rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, forced marriage and all other ways of grave sexual violence against women, man , girls or boys, who have a direct or indirect bonding (temporal, geographic, or causal) with conflict ".3 Sexual violence is a multifunctional weapon of war, its use allows reaching different goals: domination, regulation, silence, getting information, punishment, expropriate or exterminate those who are considered enemies, until rewarding or unite the group that committed.4 Sexual violence has been used strategically in the armed conflict in Colombia in different ways, including forced sterilization. This paper presents a conceptual framework on the forms of sexual violence and then focuses on the analysis of the crime of forced sterilization provided for in Article 139B of the Colombian penal code and concludes with a series of recommendations on different aspects of this regulation.