Kosovar women are finding ways to help each other in their war-torn societyt.

"[Some women] are torn and traumatized…easy candidates for suicide and sex trafficking."

The Kosovar Center for the Protection of Women and Children, a grantee of the San-Francisco-based Global Fund for Women, is a gathering place for women in war-torn Kosova. Since 1994 the Center has been providing women with basic health care and counseling to cope with rape and other forms of violence.

"Some women are isolated," said Human Rights Director Sevdie Ahmeti. "They are torn and traumatized…easy candidates for suicide and sex trafficking. I want to help women restore their dignity."

She travels from village to village, counting each victim of systemic abuse and photographing beaten bodies, including those of children. She uses her records to help prove that rape was used as a tool of war.

Ahmeti knows she cannot reverse the fate of the untold numbers of dead victims, but she hopes to be able to assist the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia in the prosecution of war criminals.