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Common grounds : violence against women in war and armed conflict situations
Title:
Common grounds : violence against women in war and armed conflict situations
Author:
Sajor, Indai Lourdes.
Publication Information:
Quezon City, Philippines : Asian Center for Women's Human Rights (ASCENT), [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
viii, 358 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Papers presented at the International Conference on Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations, held in Tokyo from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3, 1997.
Language:
English
Contents:
History cannot be erased, women can no longer be silenced -- Acknowledging violations, struggling against impunity: women's rights, human rights -- Breaking the collusion of silence -- The case of forced evictions -- Fundamentalism and femicide -- Rape as a war crime-mythology and history -- Rape and war: The Japanese experience -- How the violence against women were dealt with in war crime trials -- Backlash against the comfort women issue: moves against history textbook references -- The role of NGOs in the comfort women issue -- The comfort women issue and responses of the Japanese government -- Chinese women war victims and the legal responsibilities of the Japanese government -- Taiwanese comfort women's quest for justice -- Afghanistan: atrocities against civilians -- Mass rape and violence in the 1971 armed conflict of Bangladesh: justice and other issues -- The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh and crimes committed against women -- Cambodian women in armed conflict situation -- Violence against ethnic women by the Burmese military -- Violence against women in East Timor under the Indonesian occupation -- Borders and bodies: recovering women in the national interest -- The reproductive health of Vietnamese women and chemical weapons -- Ethics of difference-working with women survivors -- The Tokyo declaration.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9789719199106
Format :
Book