Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States Under International Law?

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20263-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 614 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 2400 mm, Gewicht: 1223 g

Reihe: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library

The crime of rape has been prevalent in all contexts, whether committed during armed conflict or in peacetime, and has largely been characterised by a culture of impunity. International law, through its branches of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, has increasingly condemned such violence and is progressively obliging states to prevent rape, whether committed by a state agent or a private actor. Whereas the prohibition of rape has been consistently recognised in these areas of law, the definition of the offence has been a later concern to international law. Attempts to define the crime have, however, been made by the ad hoc tribunals (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), regional human rights courts and UN treaty bodies. Increasing duties are thus placed on states, not only to prevent rape through the enactment of criminal laws, but to adopt specific elements of the crime in domestic legislation. This study systematises and analyses such emerging obligations in international law. This leads to overarching questions on the fragmentation and harmonisation of norms between various regimes in international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eriksson, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction
1 The Definition of Rape in an International Perspective;
Part II: Elements of the Crime of Rape: A Contextual Approach
2 The Prohibition of Rape in Domestic Criminal Law: An Historical Overview; 3 The Harm of Sexual Violence; 4 Elements of the Crime of Rape; 5 Sexual Violence in Context;
Part III: An International Human Rights Law Perspective
6 State Obligations to Prevent and Punish Rape; 7 The Recognition of Rape as a Violation of International Human Rights Law;
Part IV: An International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law Perspective
8 International Humanitarian Law; 9 International Criminal Law;
Part V: The Prohibition of Rape – Closing the Gap between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law?
10 The Interplay between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law;
Part VI: A Cultural Perspective
11 Cultural Relativism and Obstacles to a Uniform International Definition of Rape;
Part VII: Conclusions – Emerging Obligations in Defining the Crime of Rape?
12 Concluding Summary and Remarks;
References; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Eriksson, Maria
Maria Eriksson has, after finishing a degree in law at Uppsala University, researched and taught mainly international human rights law and international criminal law at Örebro University as well as worked as a clerk at the International Criminal Court, The Hague.

Maria Eriksson has, after finishing a degree in law at Uppsala University, researched and taught mainly international human rights law and international criminal law at Örebro University as well as worked as a clerk at the International Criminal Court, The Hague.