Comments on: United Nations Delcares Sexual Violence to be Tactic of War

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By: Cath

Cath — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:30:18 +0000

What kind of a hateful freak values national sovereignty over human rights?

Oh, yeah, the kind of hateful freak who says “fuck women’s rights.”

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:36:04 +0000

Well would you look at that? Macai just got himself banned for saying “fuck women’s rights” on a feminist blog. Who could have seen that coming?

By the way asshole, you’re not getting a shit storm for saying that national sovereignty is more important than human rights, though that’s incredibly reprehensible and pretty telling. You get a shit storm for being a know-it-all misogynist who WARNS us pretty little ladies to not get too worked up about all of this silly “rape” stuff.

By: Macai

Macai — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:30:42 +0000

I’m not really a fan of the United Nations, not only due its impotence as far as this is concerned (because its dealings with basically everything is impotent), but the fact that it claims the authority to supersede something very important to me; national sovereignty.

I know I’m going to get a shit storm for this, but I actually hold national sovereignty pretty high. I hold it higher, even, than human rights.

And while this is entirely tangential, I’d also like to say that I’m not a fan of this “women’s rights” crap. Fuck women’s rights. I want people’s rights. How about that for an idea, huh?

By: brenna

brenna — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:53:33 +0000

but as we all know the UN is not always the most neutral body

It’s not really supposed to be. It’s a voting body of representatives from different countries with vastly different views.

The question of whether they’ll actually implement anything is probably already answered for us in the light of other such pronouncements they’ve made. But that’s the cost we pay for demanding that individual sovereignty take precedence over the UN’s need for a standing army to enforce the things we all claim need to be enforced.

By: Ruana

Ruana — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:38:44 +0000

It took until 2008 for the United Nations to recognize sexual violence as a weapon of war?

I know what you mean. I got much the same feeling when England and Wales abolished its legal exemption for spousal rape – in 1991.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:15:57 +0000

I an just saying that should they implement this and I have my doubts, I hope that they will do so fairly across the board but as we all know the UN is not always the most neutral body

By: brenna

brenna — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:09:13 +0000

To be fair, rape was prosecuted as an act of genocide in both the Bosnian and Rwandan Tribunals.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:51:13 +0000

A U.S.-sponsored resolution adopted unanimously by the council called sexual violence “a tactic of war to humiliate, dominate, instil fear in, disperse and/or forcibly relocate civilian members of a community or ethnic group.”

While I think that it is wonderful that this resolution was passed the fact that they single out African countries is troubling. Yes this is where the majority of the war related rapes are happening but this does not mean that western soldiers have not been guilty of the same thing. Many atrocities have been committed by Canadian, British, and American soldiers in an attempt to maintain western hegemony.