Sexual Crimes in Conflict Database

A collection of relevant literature and case law

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  • Literature

    Carpenter, Charli R. – Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond

    Year
    2010
    Issues
    Socio-cultural Context of Sexual Violence Sexual Violence against Children
    Country
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    Keywords
    Stigmatization Children Born of War Children Born of Rape

    Reference link
    http://cup.columbia.edu/book/forgetting-children-born-of-war/9780231151306
    Full reference
    Charli R. Carpenter, Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond, Colombia University Press, New York, 2010.
    Type of literature
    Book
    Research focus
    Investigation, Prosecution and Prevention of Conflict related Sexual Violence, Obstacles to Establish Accountability for Sexual Violence Crimes
    Author
    Carpenter, R. Charli

  • Jurisprudence judicial mechanism

    Iraqi High Tribunal - Muhammad Azzawi Ali al-Marsumi ("Saddam Hussein Al Majeed et al.")

    Year
    2006
    Issues
    Socio-cultural Context of Sexual Violence Achievements and Challenges of Sexual Violence Prosecution
    Country
    Iraq
    Keywords
    Acquittal Stigmatization Threat of Rape Use of Euphemistic Language

    Reference link
    http://www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org/Case/187
    Type of mechanism
    Domestic court
    Name of mechanism
    Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT)
    Name of accused
    Muhammad Azzawi Ali al-Marsumi
    Charges
    Al-Marsumi was indicted (on 31 July 2005) for different charges of crimes against humanity, including torture (based on the Rome Statute provision) by aiding and abetting the senior defendants’ (Hussein, Hassan and Ramadan) joint criminal enterprise, which seemed to include sexual violence as found in the factual findings in the Judgement. The indictment was based on the response of the President and his staff on the July 1982 event. In July 1982, a convoy carrying Saddam Hussein was fired upon by unknown individuals as it was visiting the town of Al Dujail. In response to what the President perceived as an assassination attempt but which did not injure anyone, a systematic attack was launched against the residents of Al Dujail as they were fired upon from aircraft and their property was destroyed. A Revolutionary Court sentenced 148 residents to death without trial for their alleged involvement in the assassination attempt. Of those that were hanged, the Tribunal identified a number of children. Countless others died in detention, as a result of torture at the hand of the Investigation Services, or from malnutrition, lack of access to medical care and poor hygienic conditions. Many rapes and other forms of sexual violence committed against women took place in detention.
    Trial chamber verdict
    On 5 November 2006, al-Marsumi was acquitted on the request of the Prosecution (all the other co-accused in this case were convicted, including six for sexual violence).
    Status
    2715
    Case number
    1/E First/2005

  • Literature

    Nowrojee, Binaifer - Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence...

    Year
    1996
    Issues
    Definitions/Elements of Sexual Violence Crimes
    Country
    Rwanda
    Keywords
    Shame Stigmatization Witness Protection Prosecution Rejection

    Reference link
    https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/Rwanda.htm
    Full reference
    Binaifer Nowrojee, Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath, Human Rights Watch, 1996.
    Type of literature
    Grey Literature
    Research focus
    Obstacles to Establish Accountability for Sexual Violence Crimes
    Author
    Nowrojee, Binaifer
    Type of mechanism
    International Criminal Tribunal/Court
    Name of mechanism
    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

  • Literature

    ICTY - Reliving the Past

    Issues
    Definitions/Elements of Sexual Violence Crimes
    Country
    Former Yugoslavia
    Keywords
    Testimony Traumatization Victims Support, including Physical and Psychological Rehabilitation Stigmatization Witness Protection

    Reference link
    http://www.icty.org/sid/10608
    Full reference
    ICTY, "Reliving the Past", available at http://www.icty.org/sid/10608, last accessed at 04 February 2019.
    Type of literature
    Grey Literature
    Research focus
    Impacts of Sexual Violence Crimes Prosecutions
    Author
    ICTY
    Type of mechanism
    International Criminal Tribunal/Court
    Name of mechanism
    International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

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