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Ms. Valerie Oosterveld

Ms. Valerie Oosterveld
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Associate Director, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law

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Criminal Law and Procedure
International Criminal Law
Sexual Violence and other Gender-based Crimes in the Jurisprudence of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

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Criminal Law and Procedure
International Criminal Law
Sexual Violence and other Gender-based Crimes in the Jurisprudence of
International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
A. Legal Instruments

Agreement by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, London, 8 August 1945, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 82, p. 279.

Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, 19 January 1946, United States Department of State, Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1589.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 287.

Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 3.

Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 609.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaReport of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 808 (1993) (S/25704), 3 May 1993.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaSecurity Council resolution 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Seriess, vol. 2187, p. 3.

Agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone on the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone (with Statute), Freetown, 16 January 2002, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2178, p.137.

Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Elements of Crimes, Official Records of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, First session, New York, 3-10 September 2002 (ICC-ASP/1/3 and Corr.1), part II.B, and Official Records of the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Kampala, 31 May – 11 June 2010 (RC/11).

Agreement between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia concerning the prosecution under Cambodian law of crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea, Phnom Penh, 6 June 2003, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2329, p. 117.

B. Jurisprudence

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Prosecutor v. Akayesu, Judgment of 2 September 1998, Trial Chamber, ICTR-96-4.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor v. Furundžija, Judgement of 10 December 1998, Trial Chamber, IT-95-17/1.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Prosecutor v. Musema, Judgment of 27 January 2000, Trial Chamber, ICTR-96-13.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor v. Kunarac et al., Judgement of 22 February 2001, Trial Chamber, IT-96-23/T & IT-96-23/1-T.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor v. Kunarac et al., Judgement of 12 June 2002, Appeals Chamber, IT-96-23 & IT-96-23/1-A.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Prosecutor v. Nahimana et al., Judgment of 3 December 2003, Trial Chamber, ICTR-99-52-T.

Special Court for Sierra Leone, Prosecutor v. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao, Judgement of 2 March 2009, Trial Chamber, SCSL-04-15-T.

Special Court for Sierra Leone, Prosecutor v. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao, Judgement of 26 October 2009, Appeals Chamber, SCSL-04-15-A.

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Prosecutor v. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, Judgement of 16 November 2018, Case No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC.

International Criminal Court, The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda, Judgement of 8 July 2019, Trial Chamber, ICC-01/04-02/06-2359.

International Criminal Court, The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda, Judgement of 30 March 2021, Appeals Chamber ICC-01/04-02/06 A3.

International Criminal Court, The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, Judgement of 4 February 2021, Trial Chamber, ICC-02/04-01/15.

International Criminal Court, The Prosecutor v.  Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, Decision of 13 November 2019 (in French only), Pre-Trial Chamber, ICC-01/12-01/18-461-Corr-Red.

International Criminal Court, The Prosecutor v.  Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, Decision of 9 July 2021, Pre-Trial Chamber, ICC-02/05-01/20-433. 

C. Documents

International Military Tribunal, Judgment and Sentences, Nuremburg, 1 October 1946, reprinted in American Journal of International Law, vol. 41, 1946, p. 172.

“Judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East”, in B. V. A. Roling/C. F. Riiter (eds.), The Tokyo Judgment: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 29 April 1946-12 November 1948, University Press Amsterdam BV, Amsterdam, 1977.

International Criminal Court, The Office of the Prosecutor, Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, 20 June 2014.

International Criminal Court, The Office of the Prosecutor, Policy Paper on Children, 15 November 2016.

International Criminal Court, The Office of the Prosecutor, Policy Paper Cultural Heritage, 14 June 2021.