Women in War: Being Protected or Combatant?
Abstract: 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.
Penulis: Jerry Indrawan
Kode Jurnal: jphubintdd150344
