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Author Mibenge, Chiseche Salome

Title Sex and international tribunals : the erasure of gender from the war narrative / Chiseche Salome Mibenge
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Contents Introduction : gender and violence in the market and beyond -- The women were not raped : gender and violence in Butare-Ville -- All the women were raped : gender and violence in Rwanda -- All men rape : gender and violence in Sierra Leone -- All women are slaves : insiders and outsiders to gender and violence -- Conclusion : there are no raped women here
Summary In this book, the author applies stringent analysis to the humanitarian but flawed legal narratives of sexual violence in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, calling for more nuanced analysis of how gender shapes violence and access to justice for survivors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Rape as a weapon of war -- Case studies
Criminal investigation (International law)
Rape as a weapon of war -- Rwanda
Rape as a weapon of war -- Sierra Leone
Women -- Violence against -- Rwanda
Women -- Violence against -- Sierra Leone
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Criminal investigation (International law)
Rape as a weapon of war
Women
Women -- Violence against
SUBJECT Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Women
Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Women
Subject Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013012709
ISBN 0812208420
9780812208429