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Serbian women and girls were raped and tortured in Bosniak-run brothels in Sarajevo. [60] In Doboj, Bosnian Serb forces separated the females from the men and then facilitated the rape of some women by their own male family members. Women were questioned about male relatives in the city, and one woman's fourteen-year-old son was forced to rape her.
The women go veiled in public, but enjoy at home a freedom and privilege greater than those of the Turkish women. The young women are allowed to receive attentions from the young men, and the young man who contemplates marriage is permitted to spend the evening with his betrothed, while she sits concealed from his view by a wall or shutter.
The Balkan Wars broke out in October 1912 between the Ottoman Empire and former territories of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia. The British Red Cross Society (BRCS) had sent a team to the conflict, but explicitly did not send any women, as the society thought that the conditions would be "quite unsuitable for women." Stobart disagreed ...
This category contains wars of the Balkan states, including the former Yugoslavia and the countries created from its break-up. Subcategories This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 total.
An armed conflict occurred in Busovača in early May and another one on 13 June. On 19 June, a conflict between the units of the TO on one side, and HVO and HOS units on the other side broke out in Novi Travnik. Incidents were also recorded in Konjic in July, and in Kiseljak and the Croat settlement of Stup in Sarajevo during August. [200]
The forcible displacement of civilian populations was a consequence of the conflict and its objective through the ethnic cleansing campaign. [57] The Serb campaign included selective murder of civic, religious and intellectual representatives of Bosniaks and Croats; the sending of adult males into concentration camps and the rape of women. The ...
The end of communism has contributed to an increase in human trafficking, with the majority of victims being women forced into prostitution. [3] Albania is a country of origin and country of transit for persons, primarily women and children, trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
As part of her work at the Post-Conflict Research Center, Šarić also founded Balkan Diskurs, [14] an online platform for young activists and journalists that challenges stereotypes and shares diverse, independent views on society, culture, and politics in the Western Balkans with a readership of over 100,000 people.