Sexual Violence against Child Soldiers

Grey, Rosemary

doi:10.1080/14616742.2014.955964

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“…45 Since then, however, the OPCV's role has expanded, including through the amendment of the Regulations of the Court, 46 with the consequence that the OPCV is now primarily focused on itself fulfilling the role of victims' representative. 47 This has created a structural difficulty: the OPCV is effectively in competition for scarce representational opportunities with the external counsel whom it was intended to assist. As a result, its interests are no longer to assist external counsel achieve maximum effectiveness in their work, and an atmosphere of 'competition and tensions' between external counsel and the office which was designed to support them has instead taken root.…”

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“…45 Another common credibility challenge to dual status witnesses is the suggestion that the prospect of eventual reparations or financial assistance motivated them to lie. 46 In limited cases, dual status witnesses may have inflated their losses in their victim application forms because they wrongly thought they would be compensated a larger amount or on the spot, 47 but one must consider these forms in context, as set out below. It is suggested that clear explanations of the procedures and timing of trial, any appeal and reparations processes at the time of completing application forms should assist in setting expectations.…”

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Ferstman

2024

Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention

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See https://www.impunitywatch.org/victim-participation-and-transitionGuided by the research on victim participation and with a view to advancing the impact of victim participation at the ICC, the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) 3 embarked on a joint project, 'Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Developing Avenues for Collaboration', which was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. 4 The aim of the project was to create a platform for exchanging knowledge and co-designing resources for the education and training of legal practitioners at the ICC. The emphasis was on jurisprudential and normative developments of victim participation, especially regarding implications of such participation for the functionality of court proceedings, the rights of the accused, and the rights of victims themselves. As part of this project, on 31 May and 1 June 2018, the Centre and the ICCBA hosted a workshop and training session on victim participation at the ICC in The Hague. 5 This event brought together distinguished scholars and practitioners, and offered a forum for intellectually engaging discussions on the role and implications of the victim participation mechanism at the ICC. On 4 October 2018, a one-day expert workshop on victim participation was held in Oxford at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Mansfield College. The workshop focused on specific aspects of victim participation, including theoretical and jurisprudential developments on reparation, presentation of evidence, as well as the ethical, psychological, and practical considerations concerning victim testimony at the ICC. 6 All participating scholars and practitioners offered insightful and thought-provoking views on the future of reparations for victims, and on recent developments of presentation of evidence by victims' legal representatives at the ICC. The presentations and discussions highlighted inter alia calls to untether reparations for victims from the conviction of the accused, as well as the need for better assessment of victims' trauma in eliciting testimony and evidence.

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Section: Challenges To Dual Status Victim Witnessesmentioning

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Ferstman

2024

Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention

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“…Regarding the presence of women in the judicial branch, the research mainly focuses on the analysis of the dimensions related to descriptive or substantive representation. On the one hand, some researches study how do international courts decide on cases about women's rights (Bensouda, 2014;Durbach and Chappell, 2014;Grey, 2014;Ní Aoláin, 2014). On the other hand, there are researches in which the use of gender-neutral language is analyzed as a topic for analysis in judicial decisions (Oosterverld, 2014;Koomen, 2014;Kenney, 2010;Maveety, 2010).…”

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“…Additionally, the study of the presence of women in high courts is interesting because unlike other arenas of political decision-making, the institutional mechanisms of positive or reverse discrimination are practically nonexistent (Bensouda, 2014;Durbach y Chappell, 2014;Grey, 2014;Ní Aoláin, 2014;Scribner y Lambert, 2010;Hoekstra, 2010). In fact, Htun and Piscopo (2014) have shown that while legislatures have made considerable progress in establishing quota laws, there are no proposals of this type in the judicial arena.…”

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The representation of women in the judicial branch: Eighteen Latin American High Courts in Comparative Perspective

Basabe‐Serrano

2019

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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This article explores the representation of women in the high courts of eighteen Latin American countries. Using an unpublished database, we find that, as in the legislatures and ministerial cabinets, the number of women in high courts is small. The article also demonstrates that although there is little difference in judges' ages or postgraduate studies, men reach the high court levels more easily. Additionally, empirical evidence shows that, at the time of their appointment, the percentage of women with prior judicial experience is usually greater than for men. These results show that the greater presence of male judges is related not to academic merit or previous judicial experience but rather to a structural process of exclusion of women from political decision-making fields. In this regard, the article also finds that the few positions assigned to female judges are not in areas of great political significance, much less in the presidency of the high courts.

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“…La conclusión expuesta no significa que la violación, la esclavitud sexual y otras formas de violencia sexual contra niños soldados no sean crímenes de relevancia o que estos deban quedar impunes. Por el contrario, el hecho de que estas conductas no se encuentren incorporadas como crímenes de guerra en el caso particular del Estatuto de Roma no descarta que estas puedan constituir crímenes bajo el derecho doméstico o incluso crímenes de lesa humanidad, en determinados escenarios (Grey, 2014).…”

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Los crímenes de violencia sexual cometidos al interior de un grupo armado: El caso de los niños soldados en The Prosecutor vs. Bosco Ntaganda

Carter¹

2018

ANIDIP

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Recientemente, la Corte Penal Internacional confirmó su jurisdicción en el casoseguido contra Bosco Ntaganda, sobre presuntos crímenes de guerra de violacióny esclavitud sexual cometidos contra niños soldados que pertenecían al mismogrupo armado que su agresor. En el presente artículo se examinarán críticamentelas razones y justificaciones otorgadas por la Corte para establecer su jurisdicción y en particular, la interpretación realizada por la Corte respecto a la necesidad de incorporar requisitos adicionales a la descripción típica de los crímenes de guerra de violación y esclavitud sexual bajo el marco establecido del Derecho Internacional. Para estos efectos, se comenzará analizando el concepto tradicional de persona protegida en el Derecho Humanitario, para luego destacar los aspectos esenciales de la decisión de la Corte. A continuación, se examinarán las diferencias fundamentales que existen entre los apartados (a) y (c), por una parte, y (b) y (e), por otra, ambos del artículo 8.2 del Estatuto de Roma, de manera de determinar si el Derecho Internacional Humanitario amparaba la conclusión de la Corte en relación con los crímenes cometidos al interior de grupos armados. Finalmente, se exponen algunas conclusiones y alternativas que podrían permitir a la Corte ejercer jurisdicción sobre ese tipo de crímenes, incluso si las víctimas fueran miembros adultos del mismo grupo armado.

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Sexual Violence against Child Soldiers

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Notions of the “Arbitrary”

Notions of the “Arbitrary”

The representation of women in the judicial branch: Eighteen Latin American High Courts in Comparative Perspective

Los crímenes de violencia sexual cometidos al interior de un grupo armado: El caso de los niños soldados en The Prosecutor vs. Bosco Ntaganda

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