Sexual offenses in armed conflict & international law / / Noëlle N.R. Quénivet.

• Superior document: International and Comparative Criminal Law Series ; 19
• VerfasserIn: Quénivet, Noëlle N. R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ardsley, New York : : Transnational Publishers,, [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: International and Comparative Criminal Law Series ; 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Noëlle N.R. Quénivet has constructed a valuable tool for navigating the morass of sexual offences and international law. Using Bosnia-Herzegovina a jumping off point, she proceeds to show how, over the last two decades, the Western world has been swept up by a wave of feminist scholars writing abo...

Table of Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction
• Chapter 1. Defining Sexual Offenses: Acts and Consent
• 1.1. Describing the Technicality of the Act
• 1.1.1. Legal Definitions
• 1.1.1.1. Brief review of national definitions
• 1.1.1.2. International definitions: two definitions of rape
• looking at the technical description of the act
• 1.1.2. Feminist Critique Regarding These Definitions
• 1.1.2.1. A broad definition? Still centred on penetration
• 1.1.2.2. Gender-neutrality
• 1.2. The Lack of Consent
• 1.2.1. The Lack of Consent in National Law
• 1.2.1.1. A subjective/objective point of view
• 1.2.1.2. Brief overview of the definition of the word
• 'consent' in domestic jurisdictions
• 1.2.2. The Lack of Consent: International Law
• 1.2.2.1. Rule 96 of the ICTY
• 1.2.2.2. The jurisprudence of the ICTY
• Chapter 2. Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Offenses
• as Torture and Other Forms of Ill-Treatment
• 2.1. Rape and Other Sexual Offenses as Violations of
• One's Physical Integrity
• 2.1.1. Reaching the Threshold
• 2.1.2. Distinction Between the Different Types of Ill-
• Treatment
• 2.2. Sexual Offenses as Torture
• 2.2.1. The Prohibition of Sexual Offenses as Torture
• 2.2.2. The 'Public Official' Element
• 2.2.3. The Purpose of Torture and the Function of Sexual
• Offenses
• 2.2.3.1. The extraction of information or confession
• 2.2.3.2. The punishment for an act the person has
• committed or is suspected to have committed
• 2.2.3.3. The intimidation of the person or of another
• 2.2.3.4. Discrimination of any kind
• 2.2.4. Torture and State Responsibility
• 2.2.4.1. State responsibility for acts committed by State
• agents
• 2.2.4.2. State responsibility for acts committed by non-
• State agents
• 2.3. Violations of One's Physical Integrity, Individual Liability
• and Sexual Offenses
• 2.3.1. The Protection of One's Physical Integrity Under
• International Humanitarian Law
• 2.3.2. The Irrelevance of the Public/Private Divide in
• International Criminal Law
• 2.4. General Criticism
• Chapter 3. Sexual Offenses as Violations of
• International Humanitarian Law
• 3.1. A Crime That has Never Been Prosecuted
• 3.2. A Crime That is Not a Crime
• 3.2.1. Confusing the Notions of 'Prohibition' and of
• 'Protection'
• 3.2.2. Confusing the Notions of 'Grave Breach', 'War Crime'
• and Violations of International Humanitarian Law
• 3.2.3. Other Provisions Relevant for the Prosecution of
• Sexual Offenses
• 3.3. The Power of the Prosecution of Sexual Offenses in
• Times of Armed Conflict
• Chapter 4. Sexual Offenses as Crimes Against Humanity
• 4.1. Women as Civilians
• 4.2. The Persecutory/Discriminatory Element of Crimes
• Against Humanity
• 4.2.1. The Definition of 'Persecution'/'Discrimination'
• 4.2.2. Ethnicity as the Discrimination Ground and not
• Gender
• 4.2.3. The Link Between Ethnicity and Gender
• 4.3. The 'Widespread and Systematic' Element of the Crime
• 4.3.1. Crimes Against Humanity as Mass Crimes
• 4.3.2. The Policy Behind These Rapes
• Chapter 5. Sexual Offenses as Acts of Genocide
• 5.1. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
• 5.1.1. The Relation Between Genocide and Ethnic
• Cleansing
• 5.1.2. Sexual Offenses as Ethnic Cleansing
• 5.1.2.1. Sexual offenses as a means to terrorise the
• population
• 5.1.2.2. Sexual offenses as a means to humiliate the
• community
• 5.2. Sexual Offenses as Acts of Genocide
• 5.2.1. Preliminary Remarks on the Discourse of Genocide
• 5.2.1.1. International and national public order
• 5.2.1.2. Raped women versus the individual raped
• woman
• 5.2.2. 'Gendercide' and 'Genocidal Rape'
• 5.2.2.1. Gendercide
• 5.2.2.2. Genocidal rape
• 5.2.3. Sexual Offenses as Acts of Genocide
• 5.2.3.1. Actus reus
• 5.2.3.2. The intent
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.