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Excavation of a mass grave in eastern Bosnia. Civilian men from Foča were executed whilst women were detained and repeatedly raped by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces. The war-torn Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica in 1996, a site of rape camps during the Bosnian War and subject of the award-winning film Grbavica.
Bosnian woman and girl, early 20th century. Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina are European women who live in and are from Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), women of Bosnia and Herzegovina have been affected by three types of transition after the Bosnian War (1992-1995): the "transition ...
200. Vilina Vlas was a rape camp active during the Bosnian War. It served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak civilian prisoners were beaten, tortured and murdered and women were raped by prison guards during the Višegrad massacres in the Bosnian War of the 1990s. It is located about four kilometers north-east of Višegrad ...
Nusreta Sivac (born 18 February 1951) is a Bosnian activist for victims of rape and other war crimes and a former judge. During the Bosnian War she was an inmate at the Bosnian Serb -run Omarska camp in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she and other women at the camp were raped, beaten, and tortured. After the camp's closure in August ...
The Bosnian War [a] ( Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents.
The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal [9] killing of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War. [11] The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of ...
Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women is a 1997 documentary film that details the experience of Nusreta Sivac and Jadranka Cigelj at the Bosnian Serb -run Omarska camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. [1] The film's premiere was sponsored by Amnesty International, the Coalition for International Justice, the ...
The mission also reports that women are under-represented and marginalised in the private and public sectors. During the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, there was an epidemic of sexual violence. No official figures exist on the number of women who were sexually assaulted during the War, however estimates range between 20, 000 and 50, 000.