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Advances And Missed Opportunities In The International Prosecution Of Gender-Based Crimes, Susana Sacouto
Advances And Missed Opportunities In The International Prosecution Of Gender-Based Crimes, Susana Sacouto
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INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, and particularly since 1998, there has been an incredible transformation in the treatment of sex-based and gender- based violence' in the fields of international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Before this, crimes committed exclusively or disproportionately against women and girls, in times of conflict, were largely either ignored, or at most, treated as secondary to other crimes. Despite the fact that rape and other forms of sexual violence had been widely reported during World War HI, for instance, the crime of rape was not expressly included in either the London Charter, establishing the International …
Inter-American System, Claudia Martin
Inter-American System, Claudia Martin
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