Abstract
Women increasingly bear the major burden of armed conflict. In recent years particular attention has been given to the question of violence against women in armed conflict. The significance of these developments is considerable. However the focus on violence—in particular on sexual violence—tends to obscure other important aspects of women’s experience of armed conflict that to date have been largely ignored. The purpose of this comment is to consider a range of ways in which women are affected by armed conflict and to assess the adequacy of international law in protecting them. This issue is in theory on the international agenda. For example the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action calls on “[g]overnments the international community and civil society including non-governmental organisations and the private sector...to take strategic action” in relation to the “[t]he effects of armed or other kinds of conflict on women including those living under foreign occupation.” However the available information is fragmented making “strategic action” difficult to formulate. (excerpt)
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