Intro -- CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT -- 1. WOMEN MISSING -- 2. THE SLAVE TRADE, RENAMED HUMAN TRAFFICKING -- 3. RAPE IN WAR, AND PROGRAMMED RAPE -- 4. FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION -- 5. ENFORCED CHASTITY AND ITS COROLLARY -- 6. CHILD MARRIAGE -- 7. DOMESTIC ABUSE -- PART I: CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN IN CONCEPT AND LAW -- THE LAWS GOVERNING CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN CONSTITUTING OBLIGATIO ERGA OMNES -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- ELEMENTS OF CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- SOURCES OF THE LAW -- CONVENTIONS -- CUSTOMS -- JUDICIAL DECISIONS -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW -- RESOLUTIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS -- PUBLICISTS -- JUS COGENS -- SUBJECTS OF CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- THE PERPETRATORS OF CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN -- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY -- CONCLUSION -- THE HUMAN RIGHTS DESIGN: A CRITIQUE OF 'UNIVERSALITY' IN A PATRIARCHAL WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE -- STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: CEDAW -- CONCLUSION -- ETHICAL AND META-ETHICAL APPROACHES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- META-ETHICS OR PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS -- NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PENAL ETHICS AND THE QUESTION OF FEMALE GENDER2 -- EXAMINING THE DESIRE TO IMPOSE VALUES -- THE ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (2002): THE IMPACT OF THE COALITION OF WOMEN'S GROUPS -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN'S CAUCUS AT THE ROME CONFERENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Primary Sources -- Periodicals, NGO Publications -- Secondary Sources (Scholarly Articles, Opinions) -- PART II: CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN IN TIMES OF CONFLICT -- RAPE AND OTHER SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN ARMED CONFLICT: A LEGAL LOOK AT THE ISSUES -- I. EXISTING INTERNATIONAL LAW -- II. CASES BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS. A. Examples of Cases before the ICTY -- B. A Case before the ICTR: Prosecutor v. Akayesu -- C. Possible Definitions of Rape by the Two ad hoc Tribunals: -- D. Cases before the International Criminal Court -- CONCLUSION -- DEFINING RAPE IN CONFLICT-AFFECTED AREAS -- INTRODUCTION -- STRATEGIC RAPE -- Tactical Rape -- COLLATERAL RAPE -- DOMESTICATED RAPE -- CONCLUSION -- CONGO -- WARTIME RAPE IN THE CONGO -- I. SYSTEMATIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN CONGO -- II. SMALL STEPS TOWARD JUSTICE -- 1. Congolese Criminal Law -- 2. International Law -- III. OUTLOOK -- JAPAN -- IMPERIAL JAPAN AND ITS "COMFORT WOMEN" -- GERMANY -- WOMEN SS-GUARDS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN NAZI GERMANY -- WOMEN IN PRISONERS' BROTHELS IN NAZI GERMANY -- CAMP BROTHELS: THEIR PURPOSE AND THEIR CLIENTELE -- RECRUITMENT OF THE BROTHEL WORKERS -- FORCED RECRUITMENT TO THE BROTHEL COMMANDO OR VOLUNTEERS? -- PROCEDURE FOR A BROTHEL VISIT -- THE FATE OF THE WOMEN -- CONCLUSION -- PART III: CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN DERIVING FROM RELIGION, CUSTOM AND TRADITIONS -- SOUTH AFRICA -- THE HIV-ANTIDOTE MYTH AND INFANT RAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA -- CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTE -- APPENDIX: SOUTH AFRICAN ANTI-RAPE LAW -- ZIMBABWE -- RAPE AMONG THE SHONA IN ZIMBABWE -- INTRODUCTION -- SHONA THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE: INTRODUCTION -- SHONA MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES: DE JURE AND DE FACTO -- DE JURE MARRIAGE PROCEDURE -- DE FACTO MARRIAGE PROCEDURE -- KUZVARIRA -- CHIRAMU -- CHIGADZAMAPFIHWA -- KURIPA NGOZI -- DE FACTO METHODS OF ENSURING REPRODUCTION -- CHIMUTSAMAPFIHWA -- KUPINDIRA -- CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS: INSTALLATION OF A CHIEF -- GOVERNMENTAL EFFORTS TO CURB RAPE -- LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY ACT -- THE MARRIAGE ACT [CHAPTER 5.11] -- SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT: NO. 8/2001 -- THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT: NO. 14/2006 -- THE CALL FOR A CULTURAL REVOLUTION -- MISGOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- NIGERIA. DOMESTIC, COMMUNITY AND STATE-SPONSORED VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- CONCLUSION -- VESICO-VAGINAL FISTULA IN NIGERIA -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WAY FORWARD -- THE AUTHOR WISHES TO THANK THE FOLLOWING: -- KENYA -- MULTI-FACETED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN KENYA -- FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN KENYA -- CONCLUSION -- SENEGAL -- SOMALIA -- FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN SENEGAL AND SOMALIA -- DEFINING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) -- WRITING PAIN -- LANGUAGE, FORCE AND THE SEX OF HOSTILITY -- ETHIOPIA -- PATRIARCHAL DOMINANCE AND FEMALE SUBSERVIENCE IN ETHIOPIA -- TURKEY -- HONOUR KILLINGS AND THE LAW IN TURKEY -- CONFLICTING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS PENAL CODE (1926-2005) -- THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN -- THE NEW PENAL CODE (AS OF 1 JUNE 2005): 29 UND 82 -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AFGHANISTAN -- FEMALE SUICIDE IN AFGHANISTAN -- REFERENCES -- PAKISTAN -- AN NGO'S LONG-TERM STRATEGY IN PAKISTAN -- EXTREMISM AND INTOLERANCE IN THE REGION -- A VERY ROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD -- WOMEN'S PROTECTION AND VIOLATION OF RIGHTS -- BOLD INITIATIVES TO COUNTER INTOLERANCE -- THE SUFI TRADITION: MAZAR OF THE SUFI SAINT, BARI IMAM, AT ISLAMABAD -- INDIA AND ITS DOWRIES -- DOWRIES IN INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS DOWRY? THE INDIAN CONTEXT -- DOWRY: ITS ORIGINS -- CAPITALIST-PATRIARCHY AND DOWRY -- CONCLUSION -- INDIA AND ITS UNTOUCHABLES -- THE DALIT WOMEN OF INDIA -- THE CASTE SYSTEM AND 'UNTOUCHABILITY' -- THE INVISIBLE WOMEN -- 'ANTI-DISCRIMINATION' PRACTICES BY THE INDIAN STATE -- CONCLUSION -- BANGLADESH -- ACID ATTACKS IN BANGLADESH -- INTRODUCTION -- ACID THROWING AND ITS RESULTS IN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA -- THE PERPETRATORS -- THE VICTIMS -- THE AVAILABILITY OF ACIDS -- THE TREATMENT OF THE VICTIMS. THE LAWS, THEIR APPLICATION AND NON-APPLICATION -- PAINTINGS -- Symbols in the Author's Paintings -- REFERENCES -- THE JHUMMA WOMEN IN BANGLADESH -- REFERENCES -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Internet Sources -- RUSSIA -- TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN IN RUSSIA -- INTRODUCTION -- TRAFFICKING-RELATED LEGISLATION -- LEGAL MEASURES PROPOSED TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING -- CONCLUSION -- SPAIN -- ABUSE OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN -- UNITED KINGDOM -- FORCED MARRIAGE AS A FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- THE UNITED STATES -- A CELEBRATED LYNCHING IN THE UNITED STATES -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
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Women -- Crimes against. Women (International law). Rape as a weapon of war.