Ending Impunity for Gender Crimes under the International Criminal Court

Friday, January 1, 1999

For millennia, women and girls have suffered rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and other brutal forms of sexual and gender violence during armed conflict. Like other forms of war related brutality, such violence is often sanctioned, tolerated or ordered by military, paramilitary or other governmental actors. Although the international community has made some strides in outlawing and punishing atrocities committed during armed conflict through the development of international humanitarian law, gender-based violence has been consistently marginalized or dismissed as a natural consequence of war.

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Ending Impunity for Gender Crimes under the International Criminal Court, ICHRDD & CRR, 1999