Sexual Violence against Child Soldiers

The Limits and Potential of International Criminal Law

Bibliographic Data

ID12660100
AuthorsRosemary Grey (0000-0002-6773-9518, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume16
Issue4
Pages601-621
Publication date2014-10-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Feminist Journal of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-6742 • E-ISSN: 1468-4470
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616742.2014.955964
OpenAlexW1566994650
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

In addition to participating in hostilities, girl soldiers are often raped, sexually enslaved and used as “bush wives” by their commanders and fellow soldiers. As this issue of sexual violence against girl soldiers has become increasingly visible in recent cases before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), attempts have been made to prosecute this conduct within the established framework of international criminal law. Most recently, this issue has been addressed in the case of The Prosecutor v Bosco Ntaganda, one of the six cases that have come before the ICC from the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On 9 June 2014, the Pre-Trial Chamber confirmed the charges in the Ntaganda case, and found that the rape and sexual slavery of girl soldiers in Ntaganda's armed group by other members of that group could constitute war crimes under Article 8(2)(e)(vi) of the Rome Statute. This article considers what the Ntaganda decision adds to the jurisprudence on sexual violence against child soldiers, and what it demonstrates about the limits of the law

Criminal court · Criminology · Democracy · Ethnology · Girl · International law · Jurisprudence · Political science · Politics · Sexual violence · Sierra leone · Sociology · Special court · Statute · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Psychology

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