CHAPTER 9 Devastating Remnants of War The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. LIST OF ACRONYMS USED IN THIS BOOK xiii
4. FOREWORD A Historic Moment for Women’s Rights xv
5. INTRODUCTION Revolutions and Rights 1
6. PART 1 A REVOLUTION IN THINKING WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
7. CHAPTER 1 The Shoulders We Stand On Eleanor Roosevelt and Roots of the Women’s Rights Revolution 17
8. CHAPTER 2 How Women’s Rights Became Recognized as Human Rights 29
9. CHAPTER 3 Technology’s Quiet Revolution for Women 41
10. PART 2 REVOLUTIONS AND TRANSITIONS
11. CHAPTER 4 Islamic Law and the Revolution Against Women 53
12. CHAPTER 5 A Civil Society-Led Revolution? Promoting Civil Society and Women’s Rights in the Middle East 61
13. CHAPTER 6 After the Arab Spring, Mobilizing for Change in Egypt 73
14. CHAPTER 7 Women in Iraq Losing Ground 79
15. CHAPTER 8 Saudi Women’s Struggle 93
16. PART 3 CONFLICT ZONES
17. CHAPTER 9 Devastating Remnants of War The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls 109
18. CHAPTER 10 Under Siege in Somalia 117
19. CHAPTER 11 Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo 129
20. CHAPTER 12 “I Was Sold Twice” Harmful Traditional Practices in Afghanistan 139
21. CHAPTER 13 Letters in the Night: Closing Space for Women and Girls in Afghanistan 147
22. PART 4 THE ECONOMIES OF RIGHTS EDUCATION, WORK, AND PROPERTY
23. CHAPTER 14 Unequal in Africa: How Property Rights Can Empower Women 159
24. CHAPTER 15 Cleaning House The Growing Movement for Domestic Workers’ Rights 167
25. CHAPTER 16 Ending Trafficking of Women and Girls 179
26. CHAPTER 17 Do No Harm “Post-Trafficking” Abuses 187
27. PART 5 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
28. CHAPTER 18 A Needed Revolution: Testing Rape Kits and US Justice 199
29. CHAPTER 19 Violence Against Immigrant Women in the United States 209
30. CHAPTER 20 Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Europe 221
31. PART 6 WOMEN AND HEALTH
32. CHAPTER 21 Maternal Mortality: Ending Needless Deaths in Childbirth 231
33. CHAPTER 22 Lasting Wounds: Female Genital Mutilation 239
34. CHAPTER 23 Fistula: Giving Birth and Living Death in Africa 249
35. CHAPTER 24 Fatal Consequences: Women, Abortion, and Power in Latin America 259
36. PART 7 POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS AND HARMFUL TRADITIONS
37. CHAPTER 25 Claiming Women’s Rights in China 269
38. CHAPTER 26 A Long March for Women’s Rights in China 277
39. CHAPTER 27 Girls Not Brides 287
40. CHAPTER 28 Damned If You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Religious Dress and Women’s Rights 297
41. PART 8 THE NEXT FRONTIER A ROAD MAP TO RIGHTS
42. CHAPTER 29 Funding an Unfinished Revolution 307
43. CHAPTER 30 The Challenge of Changing the World for Women 317
44. AFTERWORD The Revolution Continues 325
45. Notes 333
46. Suggestions for Further Reading 345
47. Acknowledgments 351
48. Index 355