Research Catalog

Title

Gender violence : the hidden war crime / Women, Law & Development International.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Women, Law & Development International, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Aafjes, Astrid.
• Women, Law & Development International.

Description

vii, 133 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This report addresses sexual violence against women in situations of armed conflict. It evaluates all existing international law against sexual assault, the international mechanisms available for its enforcement and the reasons why these mechanisns have failed to redress and prevent gender violence in war situations especially when the instruments have been ratified and signed by almost all countries. The report makes recommendations to governments and international bodies on how to take legal and moral responsibility to prevent, investigate and punish gender-based abuses committed by state agents during armed conflict.

Subject

• War crimes
• War > Protection of civilians
• Rape
• Human rights
• War (International law)
• War crimes > Law and legislation
• War Crimes
• Women's Rights
• Human Rights
• Crime Victims

Note

• "Writers Astrid Aafjes (introduction by Ann Tierney Goldstein).--t.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-133).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

How war affects women -- Legal standards -- International law -- Humanitarian law -- Human rights law -- Refugee law -- Regional human rights law -- Regional refugee law -- State of emergency and non-derogable rights -- Reparations -- Asylum regimes -- Increasing the protection of women -- Actual application of legal standards -- The Yugoslavia ad hoc tribunal -- The Rwanda ad hoc tribunal -- A future permanent international criminal court.

OCLC

• 40777634
• SCSB-10046479

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library