War rape

As per sections of the Qur’an, Muslim men are permitted to retain woman as sex slaves. "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee” This is one of several personal-sounding verses "from Allah" narrated by Muhammad - in this case allowing himself a virtually unlimited supply of sex partners. Other Muslims are restrained to four wives, but, following

The conflict in Nigeria is yet another example of an ongoing war which has targeted women and girls. The Islamic extremist insurgency group, Boko Haram, is waging war against the Nigerian government and has taken the use of women in conflict to an unprecedented level with the kidnapping of women and girls for sexual enslavement and to carry out suicide attacks (Amnesty International, 2015). The issue was brought to the world’s attention when 276 girls were kidnapped from the Nigerian village of Chibok

Japanese lined up for them. They protected me, because I was so young. They would say: 'Leave my little sister alone, just take me.' I was taken, too, but not so badly. I still was able to have children." Once she had reached freedom at the end of the war, Umi married a family member because no one else wanted her. Within Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies of Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves, Tan Yuhua, born in 1928, explains how as the only girl in her family, she was taken to become a comfort woman. Her

committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from 1992 to 1995 and the treatment of the phenomenon of mass wartime rape and its survivors in the post-war period from 1996 to present. The dissertation is inspired by a persistent question, by numerous international, regional and local people, including scholars, who have been shocked by the reports of exceptionally brutal war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, including images of concertation camps and mass rape: How was it possible

of the Child and Maiden archetypes without addressing one of the most prevalent and normalized war crimes, rape. Rape, as a symptom of war, has always been seen as something to expect, a constant. It’s a direct correlation to the worth of a woman and is known to be erased, under recorded, or rewritten as a method to help boost moral among soldiers(Hynes 2004: 432). In the case of the archetypes, war rape is the forced transition from the Child to the Maiden, through the use of sexually charged violence

the military is “wartime rape,” particularly in civil war times, which is usually caused by the influence of others. Dana Kay Cohen, author of “Explaining Rape during Civil War: Cross-National Evidence (1980-2009)” explains that,” [w]ithout a clear comparative understanding of where and to what extent wartime rape occurs, it is difficult to draw defensible conclusions.” Thus, it is not certain why rape occurs so frequently in the military. However, Cohen believes civil war influences the chances

promiscuity. Globally war 's that have taken place in the 20th and 21st centuries have caused an increase in violence and harm done to women and children, "as approximately 1 in 3 women in the world is beaten, coerced into sex, and otherwise abused" (Shaw 506). In fact rape is a common weapon in a warring nation. The United Nations Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security was adopted in 2000. "It focuses on measures to protect women and girls for gender based violence, particularly rape and other forms

Ann Jones was apart of the Global Crescendo Project that was brought into Sierra Leone. It was then decided that she should take her project Pendembu, which was where people had survived the worst of the war. Jones provided the girls in the village of Pendembu with cameras so that these girls could take pictures of the villages. Afterwards, they would pick two of their pictures to present and talk about at their school so they could teach other children and parents in the village about ways to help

Gendered Lens on the Ripple Effect of Rape in War Women between the ages of 15 to 44 are at a greater risk of rape than cancer, malaria and a motor accident (Wood, 2009). According to Amnesty International (2014), 40 women are raped everyday in South Kivu regarding the on-going armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sexual violence during armed conflict has historically been known as one of the legitimate spoils of war (Brown, 2011). Spoils of war result from defeating a population

Why do men rape? The question asks in relation to the events of 1915 where a series of policies and practices which sought to forcibly deport the ethnic group known as Armenians from the Ottoman empire resulted in the deaths of 1.5 million and high rates of rape and sexual violence.The answer to this question would not be examined extensively until recent genocides of the 1990s such as in Yugoslavia where rape was perpetrated by Serbian soldiers against Bosnian and Croatian women and in Rwanda against