WOMEN. Most "raped victims" all over the world. But, we don't know that MEN are considered as the victims too. Unheard. Silent. Traumatised. Because we all knew that men are strong and brave. Let me elaborate on an interview by Will Storr who travels to Uganda to meet traumatised survivors, and reveals how male rape is endemic in many of the world's conflicts.

From the interview of Mr Storr, the victim narrated his secret. During his escape from the civil war in neighbouring Congo, he had been separated from his wife and taken by rebels. His captors raped him, three times a day, every day for three years. And he wasn't the only one. He watched as man after man was taken and raped. The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him. Owiny, the wife responded, "That was hard for me to take. There are certain things you just don't believe can happen to a man, you get me? But I know now that sexual violence against men is a huge problem. EVERYBODY HAS HEARD THE WOMEN'S STORIES, BUT NOBODY HAS HEARD THE MEN'S."

These stories that remain unheard is not just in East Africa. According to Lara Stemple, of the University of California's Health and Human Rights Law Project. Her study Male Rape and Human Rights notes incidents of male sexual violence as a weapon of wartime or political aggression in countries such as Chile, Greece, Croatia, Iran, Kuwait, the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia. Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of male political prisoners surveyed in the 1980s described at least one incidence of sexual torture. A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.

Here's a link to entirely understand the situation of male rape

I wrote this petition to consider that not just FEMALES ARE RAPE VICTIMS, BUT MALES ARE TOO.