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Women Subjected to Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Army During WWII Still Waiting for an Apology

On the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Asia, women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the Japanese Imperial army...
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A Methodology for Gender-Sensitive Research

A Methodology for Gender-Sensitive ResearchbyAgnès CallamardIt is now common knowledge that the majority of people killed in modern warfare...
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Documenting Human Rights Violations by State Agents

Documenting Human Rights Violations by State AgentsbyAgnès CallamardThe international community has increased its efforts towards the...
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Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts

Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed ConflictsbyAgnés CallamardThe international community has increased its efforts towards the...
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Documenting Women's Rights Violations by Non-state Actors

Documenting Women's Rights Violations By Non-state ActorsbyJan Bauer and Anissa Hélie“Honour crimes” in Jordan, “sexual...
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Court of Women Hears the Testimonies of Trafficked and Sexually Exploited Women and Girls

The jury deliberating on a most unusual trial – the first South East Asia Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking in South East Asia ...
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Sex-Trafficked Women and Girls have a Higher Risk of Contracting a Sexually Transmitted Infection

Sex-trafficked women and girls in South East Asia are at substantial risk of sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and a majority of them...
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Actress Sienna Miller's Understanding of 'War Rape' may be Helpful to Secretary Clinton

Killings and brutal sexual violence against women, girls and also men have massively increased in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the...
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Clinton Should Highlight Rape and Justice Issues during her trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo

In ancient times: rape was a reward to the victors: The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) describes the rape of the women of conquered tribes as a...
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Rape and Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Today, the Congolese army, security sector personnel, and several armed groups still use sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Democratic...
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