Essays about: "Akayesu"

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  1. 1. Adjudication of Gender Based Crimes against Women in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Irma Hodzic; [2012]
    Keywords : gender based crimes; sexual violence; international criminal law; ICTY; ICTR; ICC; SCSL; rape; sexual slavery; enforced prostitution; forced pregnancy; enforced sterilization; any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; forced marriage; crimes against humanity; war crimes; genocide; Akayesu; Kunarac; Furundzija; RUF; AFRC; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Sexual crimes against women have always been a part of war and have occurred in virtually every armed conflict throughout human history. For a very long time, and still today in some cultures, women were not seen as equal to men. Thus, gender based crimes against women were almost invisible to international criminal law. READ MORE