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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 Uncondemned. The Uncondemned is a 2015 documentary film produced by Film at Eleven Media. Co-directed by Michele Mitchell and Nick Louvel, the film examines the first trial that prosecuted rape as a war crime and an act of genocide. [1] Rape was declared a war crime in 1919 but was not tried in court until 1997 during the trial of Jean-Paul ...
Saving Face (2012 film) Sex in a Cold Climate. Sex Slaves (film) Sin by Silence. Sisters in Law (film) Six Days: Three Activists, Three Wars, One Dream. Son Rise.
1821 →. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 was unanimously adopted on 19 June 2008. It condemns the use of sexual violence as a tool of war, and declares that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide”.
Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...
e. Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence[1][2] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [3] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender, and can ...
War crimes in World War I. Namur City Hall, destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium, 1914. During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This includes the use of indiscriminate violence and massacres against civilians ...
The documentary follows the story of a nineteen-year-old girl who survives an honor killing attempt by her father and uncle. [5] The protagonist has a solid stance on not forgiving her attackers, but the public pressures her into forgiving.