Defining rape : emerging obligations for states under international law? / by Maria Eriksson.
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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011. |
| Series: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ;
v. 38. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.