E-Library ‘71 – recent additions – (July 2010, week 2)
Librarians’ Note: This E-Library is maintained by the War Crimes Strategy Forum (WCSF), a strategic coalition of activists and organisations sharing the common goal of assisting the prosecution of war criminals of Bangladesh 1971. Only the members registered to E-Library site will enjoy FULL-TEXT download-access to the entries. It is advised that you open your free-account today by clicking the Registration link. To be able to download full-text of the items stored on this library, or to add new items, you will need additional user-rights which can be requested from the Library-Admin at the Feedback-Address. You are also welcome to suggest new records to the library database. We hope the resources made available on this site will facilitate serious research of high standard on issues relating to the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the prosecution of war criminals.
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Abstract: In the light if the three essential features of feminism, the author tries to provide an overview of some major contributions and features if feminist IR thinking, with particular attention to the problem of war and peace.
Abstract: The author identifies the major goals and achievements in the area of recognizing women as full subjects of human rights and eliminating impunity for gender crimes, highlighting the role of nongovernmental organizations (“NGO’s”). Until the 1990s sexual violence in war was largely invisible, a point illustrated by examples of the “comfort women” in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s and the initial failure to prosecute rape and sexual violence in the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Due in a significant measure to the interventions by NGOs, the ad hoc international criminal tribunals have brought gender into mainstream international jurisprudence. For example, the Yugoslavia tribunal has devoted substantial resources to the prosecution of rape and explicitly recognized rape as torture, while the Rwanda tribunal has recognized rape as an act of genocide. Elsewhere, the Statute of the International Criminal Court is a landmark in codifying not only crimes of sexual and gender violence as part of the ICC’s jurisdiction, but also in establishing procedures to ensure that these crimes and their victims are properly treated. Working towards this end the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice met with significant opposition. It persisted because of the imperative that sexual violence be seen as part of already recognized forms of violence, such as torture and genocide.
Jones, A. “Gendercide and Genocide.” Journal of Genocide Research. 2.2 (2000): 185-211.
Abstract: The article seeks to place such acts of “gendercide” in comparative and global-historical perspective. It argues that gendercide—inclusively defined as gender-selective mass killing—is a frequent and often defining feature of human conflict and perhaps of human social organization, extending back to antiquity.
Abstract: This is a letter from Brad Adams, Executive Director, Asia Division of Human Rights Watch regarding the trial of war criminals under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973, as amended in 2009.
Abstract: This is a legislative review prepared by IBA-WCC on request from UK All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group of Bangladesh’s International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 as amended in 2009.
Statute list multiple crimes. In those instances, the elements of crimes appear in separate paragraphs which correspond to each of those crimes to facilitate the identification of the respective elements.
appropriate, in order to emphasize the relationship between the Rules and the Rome Statute, as provided for in article 51, in particular, paragraphs 4 and 5. In all cases, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence should be read in conjunction with and subject to the provisions of the Statute. The Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court do not affect the procedural rules for any national court or legal system for the purpose of national proceedings.
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