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Defining Rape : Emerging Obligations for States Under International Law?.
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 crim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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| Colección: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The definition of rape in an international perspective
- The prohibition of rape in domestic criminal law : an historical overview
- The harm of sexual violence
- Elements of the crime of rape
- Sexual violence in context
- State obligations to prevent and punish rape
- The recognition of rape as a violation of international human rights law
- International humanitarian law
- International criminal law
- The interplay between international human rights law and international humanitarian law
- Cultural relativism and obstacles to a uniform international definition of rape.