Women and the atrocities of war

Article Abstract:

A pattern and practice of rape as part of a wartime military strategy, such as that practiced by warring factions in the former Yugoslavia, constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity under international customary law even though a conflict may be of domestic and not international proportions. The difficulty in classifying and punishing wartime rape as a violation of international law stems from the lack of express mention of rape in international documents and the international community's resistance to bringing domestic conflicts within the reach of human rights law and the laws of war.

Cover Story, War crimes, Rape

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Child prostitution: the next push for human rights

Article Abstract:

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is undertaking efforts to draft a new international document to curb the sexual exploitation of children, especially concerning child prostitution and sex tours. Global estimates concerning the number of child prostitutes range from the ten thousands to over two million. The popularity of underage sex workers is attributed to the misperception that children are free of sexually transmitted diseases and to widespread Third World poverty rendering parents unable to support themselves and their children without resorting to sexual enslavement.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Prevention, UNESCO, Prostitution, Juvenile, Child prostitution

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Bearing children: the right to decide; amend the definition of refugee to include 'reproductive ability' among the qualified grounds of persecution

Article Abstract:

International and US law define refugees as those fleeing their countries because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. These five categories, however, do not include those whose reproductive rights are violated. The rapes of Muslim women by Serbs and the forced sterilizations in China demonstrate how violating reproductive rights are forms of persecution. Both US and international laws should amended to include reproductive rights.

Refugees, Asylum, Right of, Right of asylum, Human reproduction

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