ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Genocidal Rape, Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
4 Apr 2016
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Sexual violence and the triumph of jusice - video notes: Assault of women always seemed to accompany wars. Despite atempts to protect women, rape/sexual assault coninued. Icty stated rapes & ethnic cleansing must stop. Ictr prosecute crimes commited during rwanda war/genocide: rape can consitute a form of genocide, sexual enslavement is a crime against humanity. The focus is always on terrorism, never the rapes/sexual assaults. Clarifying and broadening the legal deiniion of crimes against humanity; builds upon customary law. Extending the deiniion of war crimes to ofences commited in internal armed conlicts: grave breaches (geneva convenions, serious violaions of the laws and customs, serious violaions of common aricle 3. Jurisdicions of the courts are based on the principle of complementary. It can only can act when states are unwilling or unable to prosecute internaional crimes: referred by the unsc (sudan, libya) and state paries (drc, ugandan, car, mali, iniiated by the prosecutor (kenya & cote d"lvoire)
