Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights

Book Overview

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations--from courts to NGOs to the UN--have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222261X
• ISBN13: 9780812222616
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"