Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women: From Refugee Camps to the United Nations [Paperback]

This book charts the roller coaster ride taken by the authors over the past 33 years, in the ongoing fight to acknowledge, prevent, and respond to the rape and sexual abuse of women in conflict and displacement situations. They have worked with an international network of academics, refugee women, and human rights activists in 22 countries. The story moves between refugee camps and the United Nations, refugee settlements in cities and national governments. Theory and ethical research methods are an important part of the story.  At times it is very confronting, sometimes amusing and often uplifting. 

Chapter 1  Prologue.- Chapter 2  Opening Pandoras Box: Rape, Sexual Abuse and refugee women -  1989  1990.- Chapter 3 - From the Local to the International: Domestic Politics and International Advocacy - 1990  1992.- Chapter 4 - Rape as a War Crime: The Road to the 4^TH world Conference, Beijing - 1993 -1995.- Chapter 5  Interlogue.- Chapter 6 - Beijing the Never-Ending Story of Rape and Sexual Torture - 1996  2000.- Chapter 7 - Intersectionality, Identity and Refugee Women-2001  2002.- Chapter 8 - Refugee Women at Risk and Reciprocal Research Stop Stealing Our Stories: Beyond do no Harm - 2003  2004.- Chapter 9 - The Power of Women Speaking Out: A Risk Assessment and Response Tool, a CSW Resolution and a UNCHR Conclusion -2005 -2008.- Chapter 10 - Survivors, Protectors, Providers: Refugee Women Speak Out From Gender Mainstreaming to the Regional Dialogues - 2009 -2011.- Chapter 11  Anger and Despair  Naming the Elephants in the Room - 2012-2016.- Chapter 12 - Refugee Women From the Margins to the Centre -2017  2020.- Chapter 13, Epilogue -The Move from Rhetoric to Reality - 2021  2022.