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v. t. e. Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
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”.
On television, film and video. In the third season Hawaii Five-O episode "To Kill or Be Killed", aired January 13, 1971, has a highly decorated army officer relate events alluding to the massacre just prior to committing suicide. The 1971 documentary short Interviews with My Lai Veterans won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short ...
On 4 November 2014, Dr. Widad Akrawi of Defend International said that "the international community should define what's happening to the Yezidis as a crime against humanity, crime against cultural heritage of the region and ethnic cleansing", adding that Yazidi females are being "subjected to as systematic gender-based violence and the use of ...
Hamas was accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity through the usage of gender-based violence as a weapon of war. [10] [17] Hamas has issued a blanket denial. [18] Testimonies emerged and videos reached the army containing testimonies that, in addition to the murders, Hamas employed methods of severe torture that included ...
The International Tribunal on Crimes against Women was a people's tribunal which took place on March 4–8, 1976 in Brussels. [1] The event was created with the intention to "make public the full range of crimes, both violently brutal and subtly discriminatory, committed against women of all cultures." [1]
On 14 August 1974, [6] after the start of Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda, 89 (or 84 [7]) people from Maratha and Santalaris, and a further 37 people from the village of Aloda were killed. [1] [8] In total, 126 [9] people were killed. [6] The massacre occurred on the same day before the second Turkish ...
Lt.-Col. G (her full name not given) became commander of the 122 squadron, the Israel Air Force's intelligence unit based out of the Nevatim Airbase in the South, which made her the first woman to lead an Israel Air Force squadron. Melissa Ross became the first woman to achieve the rank of Commodore in the Royal New Zealand Navy.