Collective violence

UN Photo/Christopher Herwig

Collective violence includes violent conflicts between nations and groups, state and group terrorism, rape as a weapon of war, the movement of large numbers of people displaced from their homes, and gang warfare. In 2004, the WHO Global Burden of Disease project estimated that 11% – or 184 000 – of all deaths due to violence were directly due to war and civil conflict.

• Collective violence factsheet
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Publications and campaign materials

• World report on violence and health, Chapter 8, Collective violence
• Clinical management of rape survivors: developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons
• Clinical management of rape survivors in humanitarian settings E-learning programme
• Posters