Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States Under International Law? (Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Band 38) - Hardcover

Eriksson, Maria

 
9789004202634: Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States Under International Law? (Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Band 38)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004202633 ISBN 13: 9789004202634
Verlag: MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBL, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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Verlag
MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBL
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004202633
ISBN 13 
9789004202634
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
614
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