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Mar 21, 2023 · It is not that women do not commit international crimes – many have been convicted in national courts for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the second world war, the ...
This document is a collection of legal extracts from the Judgement of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal. It was collated by Professor Christine Chinkin, Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon ...
Victims of Yalta (British title) or The Secret Betrayal (American title) is a 1977 book by Nikolai Tolstoy that chronicles the fate of Soviet citizens who had been under German control during World War II and at its end fallen into the hands of the Western Allies. According to the secret Moscow agreement from 1944 that was confirmed at the 1945 ...
- Nikolai Tolstoy
- 1977
Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
In the case of the ongoing war, the conservatism of Russian society and the aforementioned high level of violence against Russian women are also important factors at play. This makes the use of sexual violence outside of state borders easier, especially if it is treated as a kind of weapon and tactic of war carried out with a sense of impunity and even properness.
Sep 14, 2022 · Sexual violence and mass rape were deemed crimes against peace, for which perpetrators were held to account. The parallels between the war in Ukraine and the war in Bosnia are not lost on survivors, as evidenced by Aida Cerkez’s letter to Ukraine from Sarajevo in early March 2022 (Cerkez, “Letter to Ukraine”).
Feb 22, 2023 · 24 February, 2023 marks one year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over the past twelve months, the conflict has inflicted untold suffering on the Ukrainian people, with thousands of lives claimed, millions displaced and crucial civilian infrastructure decimated. From heightened trafficking and gender-based violence to the loss of crucial livelihoods and rising poverty ...
