With more than 120 armed conflicts in the world right now, there is a high prevalence and intensity of sexual forms of torture being committed.

That’s according to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, who was in New York on Friday, to present her report to the General Assembly.

Expressing alarm over the situation, Alice Edwards told UN News’s Nargiz Shekinskaya that with torture, “the likelihood of peace becomes more and more remote because it instils, and it’s caused, by hate”.