Sexual Crimes in Conflict Database
A collection of relevant literature and case law
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Literature
Boon, Kristen - Rape and Forced Pregnancy...
- Year
- 2001
- Issues
- Definitions/Elements of Sexual Violence Crimes
- Reference link
- https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/colhr32&div=20
- Full reference
- Boon, Kristen, "Rape and Forced Pregnancy under the ICC Statute: Human Dignity, Autonomy, and Consent," in Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2001, vol. 32, no. 625, pp. 624-675.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Gaps in the Jurisprudence and Legislation on Conflict-related Sexual Violence crimes
- Author
- Boon, Kristen
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Court
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Literature
CILRAP – International Criminal Law Guidelines: Legal Requirements of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Crimes
- Year
- 2017
- Reference link
- http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/c1c17c/pdf/
- Full reference
- Case Matrix Network, International Criminal Law Guidelines: Legal Requirements of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Crimes, CILRAP-CMN, Brussels, 2017.
- Type of literature
- Grey Literature
- Research focus
- Investigation, Prosecution and Prevention of Conflict related Sexual Violence
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Literature
Denov, Myriam and Lakor, Atim A. - Post-War Stigma, Violence and ‘Kony Children’
- Year
- 2018
- Issues
- Socio-cultural Context of Sexual Violence Role of Non-state Actors in Perpetrating Violence
- Country
- Uganda
- Keywords
- Children Born of War Responsibility to Protect (R2P) LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) Stigmatization Sexual Violence Forced Pregnancy
- Reference link
- http://brill.com/abstract/journals/gr2p/10/1-2/article-p217_217.xml
- Full reference
- Myriam Denov, and Atim A. Lakor, “Post-War Stigma, Violence and ‘Kony Children’: The Responsibility to Protect Children Born in Lord’s Resistance Army Captivity in Northern Uganda”, in Global Responsibility to Protect, 2018, vol. 10, nos. 1-2, pp. 217-238.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Causality, Functionality and Logic of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
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Literature
Grey, Rosemary - The ICC’s First ‘Forced Pregnancy’ Case in Historical Perspective
- Year
- 2017
- Issues
- Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War Achievements and Challenges of Sexual Violence Prosecution
- Country
- Uganda
- Keywords
- Forced Pregnancy Sexual Autonomy Reproductive Autonomy Reproductive Violence Ongwen Case
- Reference link
- https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article-abstract/15/5/905/4683651
- Full reference
- Rosemary Grey, “The ICC’s First ‘Forced Pregnancy’ Case in Historical Perspective”, in Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2017, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 905-930.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Gaps in the Jurisprudence and Legislation on Conflict-related Sexual Violence crimes
- Author
- Grey, Rosemary
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Court
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Jurisprudence non-judicial mechanisms
Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Country
- Peru
- Keywords
- Forced Prostitution Forced Pregnancy Forced Nudity Rape Torture
- Research focus
- Inequality and Discrimination against Women during Armed Conflict
- Type of mechanism
- Truth Commission
- Name of mechanism
- Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Status
- 2715
- Findings
- The TRC found that cases of sexual violence against women were significantly rarer than those of other human rights violations. As in South Africa, however, victims’ feelings of guilt and shame may have led to underreporting. Another reason for the underrepresentation was that much of the sexual violence occurred in the context of other human rights violations, such as massacres, arbitrary detentions, summary executions, and torture. Such abuses tend to overshadow cases of sexual violence, even where the sexual violence can be discerned. The TRC found no evidence of criminal prosecutions of members of the army or the police who committed sexual abuses; nor did it uncover information indicating that complaints filed by victims of sexual violence had been investigated. Sexually abused women often were discriminated against by their own communities and families. This hostile environment made it very difficult for victims to denounce the crimes.
- Recommendations
- It recommended that women who assumed leadership roles during the armed conflict should be recognized appropriately. Concerning health reparations, the TRC suggested that the state should identify the specific needs of women, especially in mental health. It also recommended that the impact of violence in families and gender relationships should be identified.
- Date of report / release
- 1903-08-28
- Reparations / awards
- The final report included a comprehensive plan of reparations (PIR) for victims of the violence. The TRC recognized the importance of the gender perspective in the PIR and the need for equal participation of men and women in its implementation. The PIR included symbolic reparations like public gestures, acts of acknowledgement, memorials, and sites of memory. The TRC urged that abuses and crimes against women should be explicitly mentioned in all such events. Finally, the TRC proposed economic reparations for victims of rape and children born as a result of rape.
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Literature
Salzman, Todd A. - Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing...
- Year
- 1998
- Issues
- Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
- Country
- Former Yugoslavia
- Keywords
- Ethnic Cleansing Rape as a Weapon of War Forced Pregnancy Genocidal Rape Camp
- Reference link
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/762769.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Full reference
- Salzman, Todd A., "Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing: Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to Rape Victims in the former Yugoslavia", in Human Rights Quarterly, 1998, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 348-378.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Causality, Functionality and Logic of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
- Author
- Salzman, Todd A.
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
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Literature
Short, Jonathan M.H. - Sexual Violence as Genocide...
- Year
- 2003
- Issues
- Definitions/Elements of Sexual Violence Crimes
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Forced Pregnancy Ethnic Cleansing Akayesu
- Reference link
- https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1177&context=mjrl
- Full reference
- Short, Jonathan M.H., "Sexual Violence as Genocide: The Developing Law of the International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court", in Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 2003, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 503-527.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Gaps in the Jurisprudence and Legislation on Conflict-related Sexual Violence crimes
- Author
- Short, Jonathan M.H.
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Court
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