Emma Pomfret is the press officer for East, Central and South Africa at ChristianAid. She was a journalist at the Press Association for six years and spent 18 months working in Malawi with a children's HIV charity.
Ascribing sexual violence simply to female victims and male perpetrators only covers part of the dynamic, while reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes, write Emma Pomfret and Chantal Daniels of Christian Aid in an exclusive guest commentary ahead of this week's Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London.