• Battle for Bangladeshi independence (1971)

  • around 200k women raped

• Occupation of Nanking (1937)

  • 20k-80k women raped

• rape used not as ‘spoils of war’ tactic, but for sexual gratification

• in Colombia, rival groups rape, mutilate n kill women/girls to impose “punitive codes of conduct on entire towns…”

china’s one-child policy:

• established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979

• restricted Communist China’s population growth

• ‘temporary measure’ » remained in effect for 35+ years

• second/subsequent pregnancies =

  • abortions, sterilisation, etc

• restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas

  • citizens living in rural areas n minorities not subjected to the law