Crimes against women
By: David Wingeate Pike, editor
Contributors: American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy
Series: Women's issues
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781616684808; 9781614708131
Subjects: Crimes against; Rape as a weapon of war; Women (International law); Women
Notes: A project of the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian; title: The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand; title: Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti; title: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak; title: Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: legal aspects / Eileen Servidio-Delabre; title: Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins; title: Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner; title: Imperial Japan and its comfort women / David Wingate Pike; title: Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov; title: Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr; title: The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto; title: Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba; title: Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. Shola Omotola and Saheed Aderinto; title: Vesico-vaginal fistula in Nigeria / Mairo V. Bello Garko; title: Multi-faceted violence against women in Kenya / Lydiah W. Nganga; title: Female genital mutilation in Kenya / Grace B. Nyamongo; title: Female genital mutilation in Senegal and Somalia / Tobe Levin; title: Patriarchal dominance and female subservience in Ethiopia / Melissa Krall; title: Honour killings and the law in Turkey / Ece Göztepe; title: Female suicide in Afghanistan / Carol Mann; title: An Ngo's long-term strategy in Pakistan / Naeem Sarfraz; title: Dowries in India / Ruchi Anand; title: The dalit women of India / Rajeni Chagar; title: Acid attacks in Bangladesh / Mahera Khaleque; title: The Jhumma women of Bangladesh / Anonymous; title: Trafficking in women in Russia / Anonymous; title: Abuse of women in medieval and early modern Spain / Isabel Pérez Molina; title: Forced marriage as a foreign policy issue in the United Kingdom / Sir Christopher MacRae; title: A celebrated lynching in the United States / Carol Lee Bowers.