Sexual Crimes in Conflict Database
A collection of relevant literature and case law
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Literature
Bassiouni, M. Cherif and McCormick, Marci - Sexual Violence: An Invisible Weapon of War
- Year
- 1996
- Issues
- Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
- Country
- Former Yugoslavia
- Keywords
- Ethnic Cleansing Command Responsibility Media Responsibility Bosnian Muslim Population
- Reference link
- http://mcherifbassiouni.com/wp-content/uploads/Sexual-Violence-an-Invisible-Weapon-of-War.pdf
- Full reference
- Bassiouni, M. Cherif and Marci McCormick, Sexual Violence: An Invisible Weapon of War in the former Yugoslavia, Occasional Paper No. 1, Chicago, IL: International Human Rights Institute, 1996.
- Type of literature
- Grey Literature
- Research focus
- Causality, Functionality and Logic of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
- Author
- Bassiouni, M. Cherif and McCormick, Marci
- Type of mechanism
- Hybrid court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
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Literature
Green, Llezlie L. - Gender Hate Propaganda and Sexual Violence...
- Year
- 2002
- Issues
- Socio-cultural Context of Sexual Violence
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Media Racist Propaganda Genocide
- Reference link
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2272193
- Full reference
- Green, Llezlie L., "Gender Hate Propaganda and Sexual Violence in the Rwandan Genocide: An Argument for Intersectionality in International Law", in Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2002, vol. 33, no. 733, pp. 733-776.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Causality, Functionality and Logic of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
- Author
- Green, Llezlie L.
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
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Jurisprudence judicial mechanism
ICTR - Nahimana et al. (Media Case)
- Year
- 2007
- Issues
- Role of Non-state Actors in Perpetrating Violence
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Media Incitement Ethnic Hatred Prevention or Punishment
- Reference link
- http://www.unictr.org/en/cases/ictr-99-52
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- Name of accused
- Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, Hassan Ngeze
- Charges
- Persecution as a crime against humanity under Articles 6(1) (direct responsibility) and 6(3) (command responsibility) for advocating ethnic hatred or inciting violence against the Tutsi population through RTLM broadcasts in 1994, including articulating a framework that negatively portrayed Tutsi women, making sexual attacks against Tutsi women a foreseeable consequence of the role attributed to them.Direct and public incitement to commit genocide under Articles 6(1) (direct responsibility) and 6(3) (command responsibility) as far as the sexual violence crimes are concerned.
- Trial chamber verdict
- Nahimana was found guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- persecution and Extermination as crimes against humanity- genocide- conspiracy to committ genocide- direct and public incitement to committ genocide Nahimana was found not guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- complicity to committ genocide- murder as crime against humanity Ngeze was found guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- conspiracy to committ genocide- genocide- direct and public incitement to committ genocide- extermination as crime against humanity Ngeze was found not guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- complicity in genocide- murder as crime against humanity Barayagwiza was found guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- persecution as crime against humanity- Extermination as crime against humanity- Direct and public incitement to committ genocide- conspiracy to genocide- genocide Barayagwiza was found not guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- serious violations of Art. 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and AP II- complicity in genocide- murder as crime against humanity
- sentencing
- Nahimana was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment.Ngeze was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment.barayagwiza was sentenced to 32 years' imprisonment.
- Appeals chamber verdict
- The Appeals Chamber (on 28 November 2007), however, reversed Nahimana’s above conviction for persecution as a crime against humanity under Article 6(1) for RTLM broadcasts after 6 April 1994, but affirmed, Judge Meron dissenting, Nahimana’s conviction for persecution as a crime against humanity under Article 6(3), because it found that Nahimana did not take the necessary and reasonable measures to prevent or punish the acts of persecution and instigation to persecution committed by RTLM staff after 6 April 1994. It also upheld the conviction for direct and public incitement to commit genocide.The Appeals Chamber affirmed Barayagwiza's conviction for both, persecution and murder as crimes against humanity, with Judge Güney dissenting, and genocide. However, under Art. 6(1) of the Statute it set aside the conviction for conspiracy to commit genocide and convictions relating the Broadcasts.With regard to Ngeze's work at the newspaper, the Appeals Chamber set aside his conviction for genocide and persecution as crime against humanity, however it upheld the convictions for direct and public incitement to commit genocide. Regarding its responsibility for act committed in Gisenyi, the Appeals Chamber upheld Ngeze's convictions for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity.
- Status
- 2715
- Case number
- ICTR-99-52
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Literature
Koomen, Janneke - Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything...
- Year
- 2013
- Issues
- Procedural Rules Advancing Sexual Violence Prosecutions Achievements and Challenges of Sexual Violence Prosecution
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Testimony Mass Rape Witness Isolation Media
- Reference link
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667200?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Full reference
- Koomen, Janneke, “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything: The Politics of Witness Testimony on Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda", in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2013, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 253-277.
- Type of literature
- Journal Article
- Research focus
- Impacts of Sexual Violence Crimes Prosecutions
- Author
- Koomen, Janneke
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
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Literature
Ward, Jeanne and Marsh, Mendy - Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in War...
- Year
- 2006
- Issues
- Socio-cultural Context of Sexual Violence
- Country
- Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda
- Keywords
- Rape Torture Armed Conflict Media
- Reference link
- http://www.operationspaix.net/DATA/DOCUMENT/1045~v~Sexual_Violence_Against_Women_and_Girls_in_War_and_Its_Aftermath___Realities_Responses_and_Required_Resources.pdf
- Full reference
- Ward, Jeanne and Mendy Marsh, Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in War and its Aftermath: Realities, Responses and Required Resources, Briefing Paper, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2006.
- Type of literature
- Book
- Research focus
- Causality, Functionality and Logic of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
- Author
- Ward, Jeanne and Marsh, Mendy
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Literature
Zarkov, Dubravka - The Body of the Other Man - Sexual Violence...
- Year
- 2001
- Issues
- Sexual Violence against Men
- Country
- Croatia, Serbia
- Keywords
- Rape Media Masculinity Castration Denial
- Reference link
- https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/V/bo20852839.html
- Full reference
- Zarkov, Dubravka, "‘The Body of the Other Man' - Sexual Violence and the Construction of Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in the Croatian Media”, in C.O.N. Moser and F.C. Clark (eds.), Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence, Zed Books, London/New York, 2001.
- Type of literature
- Chapter in Book
- Research focus
- Gaps in the Jurisprudence and Legislation on Conflict-related Sexual Violence crimes
- Author
- Zarkov, Dubravka
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