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The Laws of War and Women's Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Liz Philipose
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Abstract

This is a review of historical developments in international criminal law leading up to the inclusion of rape as a “crime against humanity” in the current war crimes tribunal for the ex-Yugoslavia. In addition to the need to understand the specificity of events and their impact on women, the laws of war must also be understood in their specificity and the ways in which even the humanitarian provisions of those laws privilege military needs.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996, pp. 46 - 62
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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