Preventing violence against women and girls in conflict. Lancet. 2014;383(9934):2021–2.Mazeda Hossain et al. Preventing violence against women and girl in conflict. London School of Higiene and Tm. London. The Lancet (June 2014).Hossain M, Zimmerman C, Watts C. Preventing violence against...
New survey data on and extensive qualitative interviews of men and women in northern Uganda challenge conventional notions about the role of women in fighting forces, the rein- tegration challenges they face, and post-conflict policy. Women abducted by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army are neither...
JUBA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Violence perpetrated against women and girls in war-torn South Sudan is among the highest in the world and twice the global average, a new report released on Wednesday reveals. According to a survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee charity and the Geo...
World War I began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. It was the result of the earlier tension involving territorial powers in Europe. During the conflict, the Allied powers composed of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the United Sta...
Females are taking more active roles in militaries, serving on the front lines of armed conflicts and as peacekeepers in the world‘s hot spots.
It is noted that sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war by most of the forces involved in this conflict. In some cases soldiers and combatants raped women and girls as part of a more general attack in which they killed and injured civilians and pillaged and destroyed their ...
Too long left unexposed and considered a natural or unavoidable aspect of war the practice of mass rape and brutal sexual torture of women and girls in conflict has to be challenged. The culture of conflict and the culture of impunity that allow rapes and sexual torture to continue need to ...
Since the 1970s, the practice of conscripting, enlisting or recruiting children into armed groups or forces has become increasingly common, and many childr... S Hansson 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 Forgotten Casualties of War: Girls in armed conflict This report identified a 'hidden army' or 'gen...
Girls, imperialism and war in women’s writing from the german-herero war and wwi was published in Women Writing War on page 79.
In some areas affected by conflict, adolescent girls and young women are perceived as responsible for their own safety and considered as burdens and threats to family honor should they become victims of violence or pregnant prior to marriage, according to a study just released by Columbia Universit...