Nasze ciała to pole bitwy - NYT

Omma Kulsum (30) in Thaingkhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, on December 5, 2018. Her two oldest children, a girl and a boy, were killed by armed men who attacked their village in Myanmar. She was taken from her family and raped by a group of men who she believes were members of the Burmese military. Although Kulsum was four months pregnant during the rape, some members of the community believe her baby, now almost a year old, was conceived by rape – something that is heavily stigmatizing. Her husband has also rejected her, sometimes mocking her for being raped in front of their children. Systematic rape was one component of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, more than a million of whom fled to neighboring Bangladesh. In what is now the largest refugee camp in the world, health providers here are making surprising inroads into providing safe abortions for Rohingya women who request them. Globally, millions of women who have fled their homes because of conflict or crisis also face systemic rape and the resulting pregnancies. Despite the clear need -- refugee women face among the highest levels of sexual violence in the world -- abortion services are almost nonexistent in refugee camps. "Why don't women raped in conflict have a right to abortion?" is a question that indicts some of the most powerful individuals and institutions, while zeroing in on the experiences and stories of some of the most marginalized people.