Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?

In war or other armed conflicts, generally women are categorized as vulnerable people. Sexual violence and harassment towards women is frequently use as a technique to committed torture against them. The torture are meant to create terror or as one of the methods of ethnic cleansing. Considering tha...

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Main Author: Jerry Indrawan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2015-08-01
Series:Jurnal Hubungan Internasional
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Online Access:https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jhi/article/view/324
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spelling doaj-c2726162fc6e4f1eb74e1dc1fadbcf362020-11-25T02:32:21ZengUniversitas Muhammadiyah YogyakartaJurnal Hubungan Internasional1829-50882503-38832015-08-0141788710.18196/hi.2015.0068.78-87272Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?Jerry Indrawan0Dosen Program Studi Hubungan Internasional Universitas Paramadina dan Universitas Bung Karno Jakarta Jl Gatot Subroto Jakarta 12780In war or other armed conflicts, generally women are categorized as vulnerable people. Sexual violence and harassment towards women is frequently use as a technique to committed torture against them. The torture are meant to create terror or as one of the methods of ethnic cleansing. Considering that women could be categorized as combatant in certain situation and seeing the development in internal armed conflict that allowed women to participate in hostile situation as combatant, this paper would like to give an overview towards women position in war and armed conflicts related to international humanitarian law.https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jhi/article/view/324violencearmed conflictcombatantwomen protectioninternational humanitarian law
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Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
Jurnal Hubungan Internasional
violence
armed conflict
combatant
women protection
international humanitarian law
author_facet Jerry Indrawan
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title Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
title_short Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
title_full Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
title_fullStr Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
title_full_unstemmed Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
title_sort women in war: being protected or combatant?
publisher Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
series Jurnal Hubungan Internasional
issn 1829-5088
2503-3883
publishDate 2015-08-01
description In war or other armed conflicts, generally women are categorized as vulnerable people. Sexual violence and harassment towards women is frequently use as a technique to committed torture against them. The torture are meant to create terror or as one of the methods of ethnic cleansing. Considering that women could be categorized as combatant in certain situation and seeing the development in internal armed conflict that allowed women to participate in hostile situation as combatant, this paper would like to give an overview towards women position in war and armed conflicts related to international humanitarian law.
topic violence
armed conflict
combatant
women protection
international humanitarian law
url https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jhi/article/view/324
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