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WMC's Women Under Siege is calling on women and men from Syria and those working with Syrian refugees to provide us with reports of sexualized violence as the crisis unfolds. We are relying on you to help us discover whether rape and sexual assault are widespread--such evidence can be used to aid the international community in grasping the urgency of what is happening in Syria, and can provide the base for potential future prosecutions. Our goal is to make these atrocities visible, and to gather evidence so that one day justice may be served.

We collaborate with epidemiologists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, as well as multiple Syrian activists and journalists. To learn more about this site, please click here. To read a July 11, 2012, report on our first findings from the project, please click here. For an April 6, 2013, report on our findings at one year of mapping, please click here.

A Women's Media Center initiative, WMC's Women Under Siege is documenting and advocating against sexualized violence in conflict. Spearheaded by Gloria Steinem, this initiative explores historical evidence that sexualized violence occurred in wars from the Holocaust to the present day. In the belief that understanding what happened in the past might have helped us to prevent or to prepare for the mass sexual assaults of other conflicts, from Bosnia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WMC's Women Under Siege is working to heighten public consciousness of causes and preventions.

To donate to this nonprofit project, please click here and indicate that the donation is for the crowdmap.

To report cases of human rights violations outside of sexualized violence--including water tampering and missing persons, please visit SyriaTracker.crowdmap.com.