Protection of LGBTQIA+ rights in armed conflict
How (and whether) to ‘queer’ the crime against humanity of persecution in international criminal law
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12187348 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Aneta Peretko (0000-0002-3056-1541, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 251-273 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-10-10 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Leiden Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0922-1565 • E-ISSN: 1478-9698 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0922156523000523 |
| OpenAlex | W4387514070 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 2 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
The discrimination faced every day by LGBTQIA+ individuals does not disappear during armed conflict. On the contrary, such persons have been, and continue to be, targeted for particularly heinous human rights violations due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. And while international human rights law has, in the last two decades, made significant leaps in prohibiting discrimination on these grounds, international criminal law lags behind. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court only criminalizes persecution, an extreme form of discrimination, on grounds of gender and other grounds universally recognized in international law rather than on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. In the absence of clear textual criminalization of queer persecution, this article argues international law can be queerly reinterpreted to fit sexual orientation and gender identity into the confines of ‘gender’. However, while acknowledging the normative and expressive gains that could come from using international criminal law to pursue queer persecution, this article also notes the costs, including the flattening of queer discrimination into the narrow rubric of gender and suppressing its more radical principles. Therefore, while concluding international criminal law can be queerly reinterpreted, this article expresses doubts as to whether, in fact, it should
Criminal law · Criminology · Human rights · International law · Persecution · Political science · Queer · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Statute · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Citações por ano | 2 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Altamente citado | Não |