Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women in International Law
2017; Informa; Linguagem: Inglês
10.4324/9781315092591-6
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Security, and Conflict
ResumoThis chapter considers the international legal response to rape and other forms of sexual abuse committed against women during the course of an armed conflict: its incidence, impact and consequences. Women are raped in all forms of armed conflict, international and internal, whether the conflict is fought primarily on religious, ethnic, political or nationalist grounds, or a combination of all these. Rape in war is not merely a matter of chance, of women victims being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Licence to rape has been included as a term of employment for mercenary soldiers. The consequences of rape continue beyond the actual attack or attacks, often lasting for the rest of the women's lives. There has long been criticism in domestic criminal proceedings of the ways in which women in rape and other sexual abuse cases have been subject to intense and distressing personal questioning by investigators and defence lawyers.
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