CMAJ• OCT. 31, 2000; 163 (9) 1149 (or survivors) who endured rape is unknown. A
teenaged girl witnessed her sister being raped before being killed; this was the only incident …

Author's Note [In 1992, a world conference urging the establishment of an international
criminal tribunal was held in Sicily, Italy, sponsored by the Association Internationale de …

Although widespread, rape of women has been an underreported aspect of military conflict
until recently. The current war in the former Yugoslavia has focused attention on the use of …

Sexual violence has marked the landscape of several of the most gruesome conflicts in
recent history. During the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995), the sexual abuse of …

Purpose I intend to provide an understanding of the possibilities that exist for the judgment of
wartime rape at the international, domestic and in-between levels. Design/methodology …

For centuries rape as a part of war was so commonplace that no special attention was
necessary. This changed when systematic mass rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the …

Although women have been the targets of abuse in wars throughout history, it was
documentation of the systematic use of rape in the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and …

In the arena of armed conflicts canvassing the globe, regardless of the internal or
international character of the conflict, the truth that peeks at us time and again is that no one …

This essay will examine the phenomena of war rape by first examining its current
prevalence, secondly, examining the normative grounds of the human rights claim protecting …

Sexual abuse of women during armed conflict has always been taken for granted; in modern
times, it is still viewed as a regrettable part of war. History books have brought forward vivid …