Jacqui True, Feminism,
in
Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack
Donnelly, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, Theories of
International Relations, third edition, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005
Empirical
feminism
220
(...) For example, in two troubled conflict
zones of the world, Israel/Palestine and the former Yugoslavia,
groups known as ‘Women in Black’ have protested against the escalation of
militarism, weaponry and war, and men’s violence against women and children
(Sharoni 1993; Cockburn 1998; Korac 1998; Jacoby 1999).
221 (...) For example, until the 1990s Yugoslav
conflict, states and international agencies
interpreted the persecution of women as a matter of
personal privacy and cultural tradition (Rao 1995). However, as a result of the
lobbying of transnational feminist networks and the widespread media coverage
of rape as a specific war strategy in Yugoslavia, rape is now considered
a war crime under the Geneva Convention Against War Crimes to be prosecuted
by the new ICC (Niarchos 1995; Philapose 1996)