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2006

Gender justice

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Peoples' Tribunals: Legitimate Or Rough Justice, Christine M. Chinkin Jan 2006

Peoples' Tribunals: Legitimate Or Rough Justice, Christine M. Chinkin

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The article examines the use of Peoples' Tribunals in seeking access to justice where none has been possible through more formal methods. It uses as illustration the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal that sought justice for the so-called comfort women, the primarily Asian women who were subjected to sexual slavery by the Japanese military before and during World War Two. The article briefly recounts the fate of the comfort women and then considers the legal and practical obstacles they faced in accessing justice at the end of the War. It outlines how towards the end of the 20th century the …