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    RAPE: WEAPON OF TERROR

    by Sharon Frederick & The AWARE Committee on Rape

    Table of Contents (14k)
    Foreword (14k)
    Introduction (32k)

    This book is a well-researched and moving account of how sexual assault on women has become a potent weapon in virtually all armed conflicts. Chapters giving historical and geographic perspectives describe how rape has been used throughout the ages and around the world. Case histories reveal the individual tragedies within the broad picture.
     
    Contents:
    • Lessons from the Past
    • Violence on Three Continents
    • Assaults in Asia
    • Indonesia: A History of Control and Corruption
    • Where We Are, What We Can Do
     
    Readership: General.
     
    “With chilling detail, this book describes how rape became refined as a modern military tool to destroy entire communities and nations. RAPE: WEAPON OF TERROR is an impassioned plea for the silent majority to speak up and act now.”
    Iris Chang
    Author of THE RAPE OF NANKING
     
    “A valuable exploration of the meaning of rape as a weapon of terror. This will increase public understanding for required action. Wartime rape will hopefully begin to be treated for what it is — a crime against humanity.”
    Nancy Spence
    former Director
    Southeast Asian Gender Equality Programme (SEAGEP)
     
    “This book needs to be read. The extent of rape as a weapon of terror is well illustrated in this monograph by AWARE covering a range of armed conflict and war situations. It shows with case evidence, the many women raped, beaten and tortured in conflict in the Asian region. AWARE is to be applauded for the countries covered and for raising the issues in this publication.”
    Dr Vanessa Griffen
    Asian and Pacific Development Centre
     
    “RAPE: WEAPON OF TERROR is a moving and articulate account of the historical and current use of rape as a strategy of war. One cannot read it without horror and anger that this practice has not been treated with the same seriousness as other war crimes. A real strength of this book is the recommendations that illustrate a number of actions each of us can take to change this situation.”
    Dr Heather Maclean
    Director
    Center for Research in Women's Health, Toronto
     
    “The compelling stories and the valuable statistics will provide much needed information to advocates, counsellors and policy-makers as they work together to improve the lives of women. This book succeeds in graphically illustrating the horror of the issue but also moves beyond the horror to outline practical actions that individuals, communities and nations can take to end this most fundamental denial of human rights.”
    Donna Denham and Joan Gillespie
    Denham Gillespie Associates, Ottawa
     
    128pp    Pub. date: Nov 2000  
    ISBN:   978-1-879771-53-6(pbk)
    1-879771-53-5(pbk)     		   US$15 / £10

     

     
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