Sexual violence in conflict zones : from the ancient world to the era of human rights / edited by Elizabeth D. Heineman.

Sexual violence in conflict zones : from the ancient world to the era of human rights /

From the publisher. Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage,...

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Other Authors: Heineman, Elizabeth D., 1962- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:
War victims > History.
War crimes > History.
Women > Crimes against > History.
Women > Violence against > History.
Women (International law)
Women and war > History.
Rape as a weapon of war > History.
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