GENDER: INTEGRATING CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INTO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW by Mohammad Irfan

“…Until the 1990s sexual violence in war was largely invisible, a point illustrated by examples of the "comfort women" in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s and the initial failure to prosecute rape and sexual violence in the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. …”
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From Silenced Victims To National Heroines : Acts Of Impersonation In Narratives Of Le Ly Hayslip And Nora Okja Keller by Chow, Sheat Fun

“…This study focuses on the narratives of Le Ly Hayslip and Nora Okja Keller as they explore traumatic events that resulted from transnational histories; the Vietnam War (1959-1975) and the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II in which the issue of comfort women emerged. Through Hayslip’s autobiographies When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace and Keller’s novel, Comfort Woman, the meaning of women’s sexuality and its interaction with issues of memory, nation and nationalism are explored as thematic anchors. …”
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Le Japon et la Cour pénale internationale : enjeux politiques et mémoriels by Eric Seizelet

“…The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that this delay was also motivated by two other factors : the fear that an early adhesion might stimulate in Japan the claims for reparations from comfort women and victims of forced labor during World War Two and the attitude of the USA which strongly opposed the creation of the ICC. …”
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Gender difference in understanding ageing and retirement by Nik Osman, Nik Noor Ainoon, Awang, Halimah

“…There were varying views between men and women when it came to understanding ageing in relation to life expectancy, fears of ageing, deteriorating economic status and their perception of old age comfort. Women were more optimistic about living longer compared to men but feared more the consequences of old age diseases. …”

Thailand during World War II: Impact and aftermath by Anamwathana, P

“…Furthermore, the wartime alliance with Japan avoided Thailand’s population being taken as comfort women or as forced labour on the Thailand-Burma railway. …”

Depersonalization and escaping to nature: a comfort woman’s journey in Therese Park’s A Gift of the Emperor by Somia, Ayaicha, Mani, Manimangai, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur, Awang, Mohamed Ewan

“…The Japanese colonization aimed at distorting the colonized subjects’ identities specifically the Korean comfort women who were the most drafted sexual slaves. …”
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The impact of oral carbohydrate-rich supplement taken two hours before caesarean delivery on maternal and neonatal perioperative outcomes -- a randomized clinical trial by Yuanying He, Chunhong Liu, Ying Han, Yun Huang, Jianhong Zhou, Qigui Xie

“…Conclusion Oral Ch-R solution administered 2 hours before an elective CD may not only alleviate maternal postoperative insulin resistance, but also comfort women’s preoperative thirst and hunger, compared to fasting. …”
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Birth companionship in a government health system: a pilot study in Kigoma, Tanzania by Paul Chaote, Nguke Mwakatundu, Sunday Dominico, Alex Mputa, Agnes Mbanza, Magdalena Metta, Samantha Lobis, Michelle Dynes, Selemani Mbuyita, Shanon McNab, Karen Schmidt, Florina Serbanescu

“…Results More than 80% of women delivering at intervention sites had a birth companion who provided support during childbirth, including comforting women and staying by their side. Most women interviewed at intervention sites were very satisfied with having a companion during childbirth (96–99%). …”
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