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Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones and International Legal Remedies

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In 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted Jean-Paul Akayesu of genocide, marking the first time that rape was explicitly recognized as an act of genocide and a war crime by an international court.

Why this is interesting

We often hear about war, but what happens to the people who survive a different kind of attack—one that targets them because of their gender? And why is it only recently that the law has started to take it seriously?