Some women lawmakers say military force will not end but increase terrorism, while others support a decisive well-planned military strategy. Still others say Americans should turn inward, re-examine U.S. foreign policy and ask, “Why are we so hated?”
E-mail petitions and communications have been a useful tool for grassroots activism worldwide, particularly in the women’s and human rights movements. But junk and hoax petitions are frustrating activists and tarnishing online activism.
Rape was a weapon of war in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and many victims today are infected with HIV. The United Nations has called for up to $10 billion to fight the epidemic. The U.S., the world’s richest country, has pledged $200 million, a pittance.
Mindful that women and children constitute the vast majority of casualties in today’s conflicts, African women from conflict zones have gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to share their experience in alleviating suffering and influencing government policy.
After genocidal violence, the nation is preparing for an experiment in the limits and possibilities of justice. It is reviving a tribal system of wise persons sitting in deliberation and judgment and women, once excluded, will be the heart of it.
A federal jury awarded $745 million in damages to 11 Bosnian women who testified about the use of systematic rape as a calculated crime of war. They almost certainly won’t collect, but they had the bleak satisfaction of telling the world about evil.
In the first international trial focusing on rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity, 16 Bosnian Muslim women confronted their alleged rapists, speaking out about the systematic assaults for a war crimes tribunal–and for the history books.
A former prosecutor who worked at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, where the first war crimes case focused on rape is in progress, urges that both the Bosnian women who are testifying and those who have remained silent deserve our respect.
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