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6 Nov 2014, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The achievement of state voting rights for women came three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the vote in national elections. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 12:28 pm by Robert Brammer
  For the first time women served in the nation’s armed forces, although in a limited role. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 5:00 am by Karen Tani
—Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University "This thoughtful and stimulating intellectual history takes a fresh look at history writing by and about women between the American Revolution and Civil War. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 11:23 am by JURIST Staff
For all the women who had to face sexual violence – during Rohingya crisis, – civil Wars, – protesting – arbitral arrest/abduction – interrogation processes of SAC We wear “Red lipsticks” that represents all brave women standing against the military juntas and fighting for Justice, Truth, Democracy #RedLipsSpeakTruthToPower The role of women in this Revolution is significant. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 1:18 pm by Nancy Abudu, Voting Rights Project
As a result, Michele went from being a target of the war on drugs to one of its many victims. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 6:35 pm
These vivid accounts of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most extraordinary war in history truly encapsulates the meaning of “We, The People. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 8:03 am by Samuel Moyn
With Hillary Clinton’s victory in prospect, conservatives girded themselves for another spell of making the same charges of hypocrisy as all of the Democratic president’s men and women had invited. [read post]
26 Aug 2013, 3:18 am
Here's the abstract:Before the twenty-first century, there was little legal precedent for the prosecution of sexual violence as a war crime. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 3:59 am by Darren Rosenblum
It is this stereotyping that forces men into breadwinner roles as they take jobs that keep them from their families and put their lives at risk in mines or at war. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 5:55 am by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
  The Gender Imbalance of Occupation Law  In general, occupation law has received much less scholarly and policy attention than other parts of international law regulating war. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Recently (in part because of the reluctance of some in Congress to renew the Violence Against Women Act), more attention has been given to the rampant sexual abuse of both women and men in the military. [read post]
30 May 2017, 6:35 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
May 30th, 1902 is the date is used to mark the deaths of at least 15,000 Black Africans in concentration camps that housed approximately 115,000 of their number during the Second Anglo-Boer War (26,370 Boer women and children died in separate ‘concentration’ camps as well, and those camps included Black—‘Kaffir’—servants). [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 11:43 pm
[JURIST] Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso [official website] Monday rejected a US House of Representatives proposed resolution [text; H Res 121 summary] which urges Japan to apologize to women who were forced into sexual slavery [JURIST report] during World War II. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 3:49 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese] said Tuesday that the recently passed US House of Representatives resolution [HR 121 materials; JURIST report] calling for a formal apology from Japan for forcing Asian women to become "comfort women" [Amnesty backgrounder; JURIST news archive] during World War II is "regrettable. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 7:46 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Monday approved a non-binding resolution [HR 121 materials; press release], asking Japan to formally apologize [JURIST report] for enslaving hundreds of thousands of women in East Asia and the Pacific to serve as "comfort women" [Amnesty backgrounder; JURIST news archive] for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. [read post]
 This covers a wide range of resulting injuries with devastating health results for both men and women Veterans. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 6:53 pm by Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
 Filed under: Gender Issues, International Criminal Law, IntLawGrrls Tagged: Enslavement, Genocide, international accountability and justice, sexual and gender based violence, sexual and gender-based crimes, Slave trade, War Crimes [read post]
1 Sep 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Moreover, little is written about the fate of millions of Germans, mostly women and children, who were uprooted, raped, and/or killed during the Red Army’s final thrust into the Reich. [read post]