To see the victims through the chaos
This report is a wake-up call to the world
To expose and document sexual terror crimes, ensuring justice and recognition for the victims.
Recognition. Documentation. Justice - Our Fight Against Sexual Violence & Terror
The RAIA Project documents and investigates sexual crimes committed during terror acts to ensure global recognition, justice, and support for victims. We work to improve mechanisms for identifying and documenting such crimes in terror zones and to build an action framework that strengthens the fight against sexual violence as a tool of terror at both national and international levels.
Recognition. Documentation. Changing Reality.
with SEM forces personnel (Security, Emergency, Medical) – both military and civilian, across all ranks – informed data processing and the drawing of the report’s conclusions and recommendations.
Composed of dozens of practical tools at both the national and international levels, aimed at bettering the work of SEM forces in identifying and documenting sexual crimes committed during terrorist attacks.
The report is divided into two parts: a comprehensive main analysis, followed by a detailed annex featuring numerous testimonies.
Mapping SEM forces, designing questioners, collecting and analyzing data from interviews, reports, and international documents, and formulating actionable recommendations.
Our Activity
The Shocking Truth: The UN Report on Hamas’ Sexual Crimes.
Prof. Yifat Bitton Delivers a Speech at a UN Special Emergency Session “Hear our voices” on Sexual & Gender Based Violence during the Hamas Terror Attack
Adv. Shir Bukra on Channel 14’s Early Edition presenting the research on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
In the Media
Research Work Stages
During an intensive 10-month period, the Project RAIA team uncovered, analyzed, and proposed practical tools for reforming the identification and documentation of sexual crimes and their recognition in the context of terrorist attacks.
Preliminary Mapping
Mapping of Security, Emergency, and Medical (SEM) forces serving as first and secondary responded to the terrorist attack.
Systematic Data Collection
Conducting interviews with dozens of women and men from various ranks, who served as primary and secondary responders during the Hamas attack.
Analysis of Testimonies
Analyzing evidence and materials exposing the impact of chaos on SEM forces’ functioning during a terror attack.
Changing the Global response
Promoting national and international recognition of the perpetration of sexual crimes by terrorist organizations through enhanced preparedness of states for identifying and documenting sexual crimes during a terrorist attack.
Formulation of Policy Recommendations
Developing a series of national and international recommendations to improve response mechanisms to terror attacks.
Meet the Research Team
Terror organizations must not be allowed to commit sexual crimes and escape accountability and recognition of their crimes under the chaos they create during a terror attack. Their victims should not face denial due to the lack of appropriate systems for identification and documentation."
Prof. Yifat Bitton
Leader Researcher
ADV. Shir Bukra
Researcher
ADV. Vardit Avidan
Researcher
Hodaya Shaked
Researcher
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