The United Nations Responses to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by Peacekeepers during Peacekeeping Missions
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: International law concerning sexual violence has developed dramatically during the past 50 years.Within the field of international criminal law, there has been a transformation from the Nuremberg Tribunal's failure to acknowledge crimes of a sexual nature to the specific definitions of sexual crimes in the text of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) 1 and in the jurisprudence of both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 2 and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).3 Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor of the Yugoslav tribunal, observed that "when the [Yugoslav] tribunal closes its doors, part of its legacy will be the condemnation of sexual violence against women during times of conflict".4 Set against the historical silence surrounding war-time sexual violence, the progress achieved over *
DOI: 10.15779/z38v94q
Author: Ndulo, Muna
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1548700598