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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 Rwandan...
Jan 22, 2024 · Exits by UN peacekeepers create an opening for armed extremist groups and the Russian mercenary group, Wagner, to expand their influence in Mali and the wider Sahel region. The expansion of these groups heightens the risk of violence against women and the curtailment of women’s rights.
- ‘There Is No One to Take Care of Them But Me’
- Increase in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- Include Women in Decision-Making Processes
While many women in Ukraine have joined the resistance to Russian aggression, very often caregiving responsibilities for children and family members fall disproportionately on women. Managing these caregiving responsibilities is especially difficult in the perilous conditions of the conflict. Tamara*, a woman living in the conflict zone in Donetsk ...
Gender-based violence is aggravated and intensified for those living in the conflict-affected regions for many reasons. These include the lack of security, the absence or erosion of the rule of law, the pervasiveness of impunity for the perpetrators, and lack of trust in the occupying authorities, as well as the stigma attached to disclosing experi...
Women must be able to proactively participate in decision-making processes at all levels to ensure their specific needs and perspectives are reflected and met in laws, policies, and practices. As this full-scale invasion enters its second year, children are spending their formative years growing up amid a brutal invasion, while women are forced to ...
Sep 22, 2020 · The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About. Share full article. Soviet soldiers harass a woman in Leipzig in 1945. The Red Army assaulted hundreds of thousands of women across Germany,...
Jun 26, 2021 · The research fills the gap left by the limited attention to women as war criminals and seeks to investigate the reasons for women’s commission of war crimes and punishment of them.
- Haoliang Zhang
- nickspector04@gmail.com
- 2021
Sep 21, 2020 · This brief overview of the prosecutions of female perpetrators of crimes committed during and after World War II proves inaccurate the common assumption that physical violence is not characteristic of women, and attests to the fact that violence is not exclusively a male prerogative.
Facing pandemic lockdowns, spiking violence and eroded access to services and legal protections, women in war zones continue to suffer and global commitments remain largely unmet, the United...
