The phrase “vulnerable to rape” is not correct and should not be used in written English.
A more appropriate phrase to use in this case would be “at risk of sexual assault.” For example, you could write: "Women living in conflict zones are at risk of sexual assault."
And women in areas of insurgency are much more vulnerable to rape.
The Dadaab camps are hardly welcoming; women are particularly vulnerable to rape, and theft, killings and forced recruitment of young men are also frequent.
A decision framed from a society obsessed with blaming women for making themselves "vulnerable" to rape, rather than targeting the rapists.
Male circumcision helps prevent infection, and women are vulnerable to rape and also tend to have sexual partners who are older, and therefore more likely to have picked the virus up at some point during their lives.
For many of the Asian girls, it was the fact that they were from the same ethnic or religious backgrounds as their abusers that gave perpetrators easy access, and made them acutely vulnerable to rape and exploitation.
The baffling nature of the law – it is not illegal to work alone indoors but is illegal to work in a group – is not lost on Armitt: "This makes the individual sex worker vulnerable to rape, murder".
A close examination of cases involving the rape of black women reveals that, while black women may have been particularly vulnerable to wartime rape, the Lieber Code brought them for the first time under the umbrella of legal protection.
Rights advocates worry that the country's tightened security along traditional routes has scattered migrants, making them more vulnerable to robbery, rape and extortion.
"I hope they will acknowledge the work that is already being done by those who are most marginalized and vulnerable to the rape culture that this open letter failed to address," she told VICE.
Armed conflicts are particularly tragic for children who are vulnerable to violence, rape, abduction, amputation, mutilation, forced displacement, and sexual exploitation.
The inequality of women makes them highly vulnerable to becoming infected through "marital rape to rape as a war crime," Mr. Lewis said, adding that, while sexual violence occurs everywhere, in Africa, "The violence and the virus go together".
