Reference:
(New York, Centre for Reproductive Law & Policy, 1993) 33 pages
Annotation:
This report seeks to provide governmental, international and nongovernmental organizations interested in bringing those responsible for committing crimes against women to justice, whether in the former Yugoslavia or elsewhere, with a conceptual and legal framework for understanding, analyzing, and documenting "forced impregnation" in war. The report argues that forced impregnation is a war crime under current international humanitarian law and that it should be explicitly named, recognized, and prosecuted as such. Forced impregnation is defined and then examined through its motives: as a means of maximizing the pain of rape, as a means of humiliating the victim and her family and relatives, as a means of genocide, and as a form of enslavement.