Rape as a weapon of war

Rape has been emerged as a weapon war in the present time wars.It was conducted by most of the conflicting parties in the armed conflicts with various objectives such as to obtain information about their counterparts, or to the extreme level where it is used a weapon for genocide or a mean to create...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah, Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2006
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spelling my.uum.repo.100462014-03-17T03:16:07Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/10046/ Rape as a weapon of war Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya HQ The family. Marriage. Woman HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Rape has been emerged as a weapon war in the present time wars.It was conducted by most of the conflicting parties in the armed conflicts with various objectives such as to obtain information about their counterparts, or to the extreme level where it is used a weapon for genocide or a mean to create 'new generation' of certain ethnicity. Worryingly, the pattern of rape has been changing from as a reward to the war victors during ancient period to a systematic and organized tactic of war- in this recent time profoundly in the 20th and 21st centuries. In spite of being recognized as crime against humanity, rape is largely conducted in armed conflicts today and the perpetrators are left unpunished.Therefore, this paper will look into various issues relating to rape, namely the definition and the development of rape in war, effects of rape and the status of rape in international laws.Lastly, this paper will discuss what can be done to minimize this problem. 2006-06-13 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/10046/1/17.pdf Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah and Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya (2006) Rape as a weapon of war. In: International Conference on Human Security, 13th-14th June 2006, Hilton Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. (Unpublished) http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000758903
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HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
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HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah
Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya
Rape as a weapon of war
description Rape has been emerged as a weapon war in the present time wars.It was conducted by most of the conflicting parties in the armed conflicts with various objectives such as to obtain information about their counterparts, or to the extreme level where it is used a weapon for genocide or a mean to create 'new generation' of certain ethnicity. Worryingly, the pattern of rape has been changing from as a reward to the war victors during ancient period to a systematic and organized tactic of war- in this recent time profoundly in the 20th and 21st centuries. In spite of being recognized as crime against humanity, rape is largely conducted in armed conflicts today and the perpetrators are left unpunished.Therefore, this paper will look into various issues relating to rape, namely the definition and the development of rape in war, effects of rape and the status of rape in international laws.Lastly, this paper will discuss what can be done to minimize this problem.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah
Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya
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Ahmad Apandi, Laila Suriya
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title Rape as a weapon of war
title_short Rape as a weapon of war
title_full Rape as a weapon of war
title_fullStr Rape as a weapon of war
title_full_unstemmed Rape as a weapon of war
title_sort rape as a weapon of war
publishDate 2006
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/10046/1/17.pdf
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