Title: Sexual violence in conflict zones : from the ancient world to the era of human rights /
Authors: Heineman, Elizabeth D., 1962-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rape as a weapon of war History.; Women and war History.; Women (International law); Women Violence against History.; Women Crimes against History.; War crimes History.; War victims History.
Abstract: From the publisher. 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 --^