Haiti. and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. women and children are the most vulnerable populations to sexual violence and human trafficking. Violence upon. and trafficking of. women are the worst kind of atrocities. As we have seen in Rwanda and BosniaHerzegovina. and the Liberian refugee camps. sexual violence was rampant. Today. ISIL forces are systematically raping and violating Yezidi women and girls. In addition. since the beginning of Syrias conflict. reports have revealed patterns of genderbased violence perpetrated by both regime and opposition forces. Sadly. rapes in the Syrian refugee camps have also been reported. This violence must stop. Once and for all. Mr. Speaker. whether on the battlefield or in postdisaster areas. in the household or workplace. whether in refugee camps or sexual enslavement campsviolence against women and children must be recognized and stopped around the world. Even though we recognize November 25th as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. we should fight every day to end this violence against human rights.