Chapter

Complementarity as a catalyst for gender justice in mass prosecutions

Amrita Kapur

The Oxford handbook of gender and conflict

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

p. 225-239

English

Bibliographie : p. 238-239

This chapter explores the opportunities present in the Rome Statute to promote justice for victims of sexual and gender-based violence in the International Criminal Court (ICC). It focuses on the concept of complementarity to show the ICC’s potential for reform and to catalyze the prosecution of international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes). It then describes the ICC’s broader approach to sexual violence and gender, as well as the domestic impact of this jurisprudence. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the Rome Statute’s standards should be introduced into national law. This could create broader benefits for women and victims of sexual and gender-based violence beyond the prosecution of criminal perpetrators.

• The Oxford handbook of gender and conflict / ed. by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin ... [et al.]