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ODTÜ Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları / Gender and Women's Studies

February, 2012

WOMEN UNDER SIEGE

February 9, 2012, kadincalis metugws Genel, News, , 2

More than 100,000 women were raped in the 36 years of the Guatemalan genocide in which at least 200,000 people died. In the video below, photojournalists Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita interview survivors and document the ongoing forensic and legal investigation that has just indicted former Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt. Click here to […]

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Can we end rape as tool of war?

February 9, 2012, kadincalis metugws Genel, News, , 0

(CNN) — By Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh’s 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes […]