The growing acceptance of women war correspondents is ushering in a new kind of reporting for the new-style war–one in which the casualties are women and children more often than soldiers. Also, three courageous journalists receive recognition.
The first comprehensive report on the rape and abuse of women during Africa’s widest war finds that all sides used brutal violence against civilian women as a military tactic.
A scholar says recent research may explain why two Palestinian women refused to carry out their orders to kill and be killed. Also, U.S. Senate committee approves U.N. women’s rights treaty.
A Ugandan teen-ager who escaped her rebel-army abductors tells of the rapes and forced killings she endured in a plea for international leaders to rescue the children left behind. Plus update on CEDAW hearing.
A multi-ethnic delegation finds that rape and sexual violence against women are prevalent in the recent surges of unbridled violence between India’s Muslims and Hindus.
A treaty ended Angola’s civil war last month, yet women are still struggling to feed themselves and their families. In the nation’s capital, 70 percent of residents are unemployed and many women enter the informal market, selling even themselves.
The new International Criminal Court will give women a place to seek justice for gender-related crimes committed against them in armed conflicts and as part of systematic violence or persecution.
The war in West Africa’s Sierra Leone displaced thousands of its civilians, left many with hacked-off limbs and children forced to become rebel soldiers. Now, a new report indicates an extraordinary rate of sexual violence against women and girls.
Though Japan has never apologized for using sex slaves for the Imperial Army, an international court has found the late emperor and generals guilty of crimes against humanity. President Bush has refused to support the comfort women’s call for justice.
For a Bosnian war correspondent, now editor, getting to the bottom of the war means telling the unpalatable truths about what went on and how those in power abuse trust. She gets no bouquets from Sarajevo officials, but she does get death threats.
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