Part A Major Problems of International Criminal Justice, II Fundamentals of International Criminal Law, Gender-related Violence and International Criminal Law and Justice

The treatment of gender-related violence within ICL is inextricably tied up with the recognition of women’s rights as human rights, and the growing jurisprudence recognizing violence against women in non-armed conflict situations as human rights violations. Following from the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985 women’s NGOs campaigned to have gender-based acts of violence against women recognized as abuses of human rights, a goal that was achieved at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993.1 That Conference was held against the backdrop...