Rape and Sexual Violence

Rape and sexual violence Rape and sexual violence are very serious problems affecting millions of people each year. Rape is a person who uses sexual acts of others. Sexual assault may be words, physical, visual, or one that forces a person to force undesirable sexual contact or attention. ("Sexual assault") Rape is one of the most reported crimes. In 2002, only 39% of rape and sexual assault were reported to the officer. ("Sexual Violence: Fact Sheet") Victims may not report that they have been raped, feeling embarrassed or their own mistakes.

Sexual violence is not limited to rape. Sexual violence includes forced prostitution, sexual slavery, forced confiscation, compulsory birth, forced termination of pregnancy, compulsory disinfection, slander trafficking, trafficking in persons and inappropriate physical examination or strip searches. According to the provisions of the International Criminal Court of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court of the Rwanda (ICTR) and of the International Criminal Court of Rome (ICC), sexual violence is a crime of independence. . In some cases, rape is criminalized as a war crime and / or a crime against humanity in court of these institutions. These courts also acknowledged these actions

The indictment of the Rwanda International Criminal Court (ICTR) and the former Yugoslavia International Criminal Court (ICTY) Court of Appeals is a criminal proceeding that slaughters rape and sexual violence as a crime against genocide and humanity. On September 2, 1998, the international tribunal of Rwanda convicted Jean-Paul Akayesu as a genocide crime and a crime against humanity. Part of the division of the incident. The first trial was aimed at only organizational sexual violence (rape and camp) and crimes against humanity against women and girls, and it was a case of Faucha before the international tribunal of the former Yugoslavia. Since the International Criminal Court Act (ICC) also lists rape and other forms of sexual violence on the list of war crimes, we regard sexual violence as a serious violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention.

International humanitarian law explicitly and implicitly criminalizes rape and other forms of sexual violence. The Geneva Convention on 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention prohibit rape of international conflicts and international conflicts. In domestic conflicts like Rwanda, the common provision 3 of the Geneva Convention prohibits "violence against life and people, especially murder, cutting, cruel treatment and torture" and "rebellion against individual dignity, especially humiliation." 48 The International Committee of the Red Cross explained that this article reconfirmed and supplemented common article 3. . . Obviously, you need to strengthen. . . Protect women. . People who may be victims of rape, compulsion prostitution, defamation