Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human RightsSince the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations from courts to NGOs to the UN have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime