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Part VI Key Issues in Times of Armed Conflict, Ch.27 Gender and Armed Conflict

Christine Chinkin

From: The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict

Edited By: Andrew Clapham, Paola Gaeta, Tom Haeck (Assistant Editor), Alice Priddy (Assistant Editor)

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Series:
Oxford Handbooks in Law
Published in print:
13 March 2014
ISBN:
9780199559695

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 26 March 2023

Subject(s):
Rape and sexual violence — Women, rights
The construction of social sex and gender roles means that armed conflict is sexed and gendered.1 Men still make up the majority of the fighting forces, while women’s generally unequal and subordinate social and economic position makes them vulnerable in particular ways during conflict. Women and men, girls and boys all suffer gender-based violence. Such violence is directed at a person because of his or her gender.2 For instance men sustain specific harms such as disappearances and deliberate killings in greater numbers than women, while women disproportionately...
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