Sexual acts during world war

    • 'Comfort Women' from Korea: Japan's World War II Sex ...

      Abstract: During World War II, Japan forced 100,000 to 200,000.women from all over Asia into prostitution to satisfy the sexual cravings of Japanese soldiers. These women thus forced into prostitution were euphemistically called "comfort women". ... recognize the acts committed against the comfort women as violations of. Order of 1942. Yuji ...


    • [PDF File]The Elephant in the Room An Overview of How Sexual ...

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      4 o War children o Health issues linked to sexual violence (i.e. the spreading of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases) o Sexualizing of political discourse o Ways of counteracting stigmatization of victims o Sexual violence against men (in addition to women) o Perpetrators of sexual violence With the international reputation it has gained in the field of gender equality and peace-building


    • [PDF File]Wartime Female Slavery: Enslavement? - Cornell University

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      However, this persistent wartime sexual abuse of female slaves that deprives them of the fuller designation as “subjects of enslavement” warrants analysis. Finally, it is suggested that this impasse stems from our discomfort or inability to hold the gaze of female slaves. I. Wartime Female Slavery A. World War II and the “Comfort Women”


    • [PDF File]Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict ... - United Nations

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      Sexual Violence and World War II Historical records are largely silent about the occurrence of sexual violence during World War II. This is not because sexual violence did not occur, but for a ...


    • [PDF File]Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict - DCAF

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      sexual and gender-based violence after the shooting has stopped. A number of countries emerging from armed conflict report a very high and/or increasing incidence of criminal and family violence. Impunity for acts of sexual violence committed during the conflict, post-conflict poverty, lack of livelihood opportunities and the weakened rule of ...


    • History in the Making

      Sexual Violence Against Women during the Holocaust . 82 In the seventy-five years that have passed since the end of World War II, scholars have been able to document and expand on a variety of topics regarding the war, but it is only recently that women’s sexual experiences during the Holocaust are being discussed.


    • [PDF File]Sexual Violence: a Tool of War - Un

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      During World War II, all sides of the conflict were accused of mass rapes, yet neither of the two ... (2008) called for an end to the use of acts of sexual


    • Sexual Violence Against Men and Women in War: A ...

      sexual violence against men, this paper incorporates insights from masculinities theory into a dominance framework to broaden the understanding of gender, power, and sexual violence against both men and women during war. Mascu-linities theory explores how social norms of masculinity create, enforce, and


    • [PDF File]Colliding Bodies: Prostitutes, Soldiers, and Venereal ...

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      tuned in Great Britain under the Contagious Disease Acts (CDAs) of 1864, 1866, 1869 to ... Governing Sexual Health in England after the Contagious Diseases Acts,” J. Brit. Stud. 46 (January 2007): 91–115. ... (January 2019): 14. One in seven Australian soldiers mobilized during World War I contracted gonorrhea or syphilis. 25 Australian War ...


    • The unspoken secret: sexual violence in World War II

      technology of the modern media, the fact of sexual violence in today’s conflicts can rarely be hidden. A good example is the movie Grbavica, winner of the “Golden Bear” at the Berlinale in 2006, which narrates the story of a raped Bosnian woman and her child in post-war Sarajevo. Sexual violence in World War II is still a secret. At the ...


    • [PDF File]Could Systematic Sexual Violence against Women during War ...

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      Special Rapporteur on systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices during armed conflict to the UN Sub-Commission of Human Rights, Ms. Gay McDougall found that the acts committed by the Japanese military against the “comfort women”, constituted violations of international law, war crimes and crimes against humanity. She


    • The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital ...

      European theater of World War II and the acts of sexual violence committed by soldiers of both Allied and Axis powers. In addition, the complexity of situations that produced different types of sexual violence committed against women will be explored. Existing research and literature on sexual violence against women during wartime identifies these


    • [PDF File]Variation in Sexual Violence during War

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      and wars where sexual violence was very prevalent and where it was not. I begin by discussing the patterns of sexual violence during World War II. World War II As the Soviet army moved westward onto German territory in early 1945, large numbers of women were raped.4 While the earlier Soviet offensives in


    • [PDF File]THE JURISPRUDENCE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE - Berkeley Law

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      framework in which to try German military and civilian personnel for crimes committed during World War II) and the 1949 Geneva Conventions, laid the basic foundations for the development of the crime of rape. However, the laws and norms that emerged from these endeavors had little practical impact on the prosecution of sexual violence.


    • [PDF File]THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

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      World War II (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). 7 Throughout our paper, we differentiate between two categories of sexual violence crimes: “international sex crimes” and “domestic crimes of sexual violence.” The term international sex crimes refers specifically to forms of sexual violence that can amount to an international crime,


    • [PDF File]The Sexual Revolution, 1960-1980

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      place in the period after World War I and culminating in the wild drinking and sexual pranks of the lost generation, which included such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, and Ernest Hemingway, in the roaring twenties. Nevertheless, the sexual revolution that took place in the latter half of the twentieth century was deeper,


    • Rape as a Weapon of War in the Former Yugoslavia

      before their assembled peers, to engage in sexual acts and genital mutilation. Such incidents appear in each of the four U.S. State Depart­ ... During World War II, when monarchist Yugoslavia collapsed, a war of all against all with Croats, Serbs, and Muslims all killing each other horribly ensued. Under Tito there was less discrimination ...


    • Jewish women’s sexual behaviour and sexualized abuse ...

      Significant acts of emo-tional, sexual and physical abuse of women, were, however, perpetrated by the Nazis and others against ... shortly after the end of World War II engage directly and openly with the harsh realities of life during the war and in ghettos and camps, unlike later writings which may soften


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