Rights in Displaced Situations: Challenges and Prospects for the Enforcement of Reproductive Rights of Refugee Women and Girls in Ethiopia
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2010-12
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Addis Ababa University
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With the institutionalization of international criminal law through the ad hoc international
tribunals of Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the International Criminal Court, sexual violence has
been introduced as an international crime. The International Criminal Court, beyond recognizing
and codifying sexual violence as “the most serious crimes of international concern”, indicted
individuals of the charges of sexual violence. Such devotion of ICC in the codification of gender
crime within its jurisdiction, gender perspective mainstreaming and the progress in the cases in
this regard has been highly anticipated by the advocates of gender justice. Sexual Violence as an
International Crime: Critical Analysis of International Criminal Court in Investigation and
Prosecution of Sexual Crimes attempts to investigate how the ICC has been dealing with such
cases involving charges of sexual violence in fulfilling such high expectation of gender crime
jurisprudence. The study, by analyzing the cases in the ICC involving sexual crime charges,
investigates the problems faced by the ICC in achieving the originally hoped gender justice.
The finding of the study exhibits that ICC is not fully and properly investigating and
indicting sexual crimes within its jurisdiction and is not in the ability to apprehend and prosecute
suspects and is not in a position to have deterrent effect on future crimes. The depth analysis of
cases in progress reveals that justice for women is not coming soon enough as hoped for.
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Rights of Refugee Women and Girls