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Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
Charli Carpenter
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Description for Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illus.; 1 table. BIC Classification: JKS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 572.
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances-the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for ... Read more
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances-the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151306
SKU
V9780231151306
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About Charli Carpenter
R. Charli Carpenter is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, specializing in international relations, gender and political violence, transnational advocacy networks, human rights, and the laws of war. She is the author of Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms, and the Protection of Civilians and editor of Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors ... Read more
Reviews for Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
An original work that has significantly contributed to scholarship. It is comprehensive in its scope and coverage, and diligent and conscientious in its research. It will serve as a standard scholarly reference and source of information and inspiration to academics, decision makers and politicians in this field today and for many years to come.
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