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The War Against Women

The War Against Women

2013•1h 2m•6.4/10
Documentary

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6.4/10(5)

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.

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Contramedia Films, Island Bound Productions

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ES

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