Traumatic fistula:the case for reparations
As a conflict strategy, women are often sexually assaulted using sticks, guns, branches of trees and bottles. Women’s genitals are deliberately destroyed, some permanently. Traumatic fistula often results. As with victims of torture and other grave human rights abuses, there exists an obligation to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Arabic |
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University of Oxford
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Forced Migration Review |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR27/10.pdf |
| Summary: | As a conflict strategy, women are often sexually assaulted using sticks, guns, branches of trees and bottles. Women’s genitals are deliberately destroyed, some permanently. Traumatic fistula often results. As with victims of torture and other grave human rights abuses, there exists an obligation to restore the women to health as far as possible and to provide reparation for their violations. |
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| ISSN: | 1460-9819 |