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  1. Introduction. In the early 1990s, women broke almost five decades of painful silence to demand apology and compensation for the atrocities they and others suffered under Japanese military sexual slavery during the war in the 1930s and 1940s in the Asia-Pacific region.

  2. Mar 21, 2023 · It is not that women do not commit international crimes – many have been convicted in national courts for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the second world war, the...

  3. Aug 7, 2023 · This book examines laws and customs of war prohibiting rape crimes dating back thousands of years, even though gender-specific crimes, particularly sex crimes, have been prevalent in wartime...

    • Kelly Dawn Askin
    • BRILL, 2023
    • 9004642412, 9789004642416
  4. Oct 28, 2020 · Evidence of women’s war crimes can be seen in the Holocaust, the wars in former Yugoslavia, and the Rwandan genocide, as well as more recent episodes of heinous violence connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Few of these women have been brought to justice.

  5. Feb 27, 2017 · War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. By Kelly Dawn Askin. The Hague, London, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997. Pp. xviii, 455. Index. $133; £84. - Volume 93 Issue 3

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  7. Sep 22, 2020 · Men soldier, bond, die or return home. But what about the women? Oh, right, they’re spoils: Men are cannon fodder, women are man fodder. Yet rape in war wields as much destruction as guns do.

  8. volume of a two-part series about the prosecution of war crimes against women. It aims at providing an historical overview of the development of international humanitarian law in general, and an analysis of how the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals dealt with gender specific war

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