Gender and International Criminal Law

Indira Rosenthal consults widely on gender, international human rights and ICL. She has served as Gender Adviser and Legal Adviser with Amnesty International, Legal Counsel with Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program and as a senior government lawyer in the Australian Attorney-General's Department. She publishes on gender issues in her areas of specialism. Valerie Oosterveld is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University (Canada) and the Associate Director of Western's Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. She is a member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice and has published widely on gender issues in ICL. Susana SáCouto directs the War Crimes Research Office and the Hague Summer Program at American University Washington College of Law, where she teaches courses on ICL, including a seminar on gender and ICL. She has advised and provided legal assistance on ICL issues to international, regional and domestic courts and publishes on issues at the intersection of gender and ICL.

Misconceptions and Misunderstandings about Gender in International Criminal Law 1: Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, Susana SáCouto: What is 'Gender' in International Criminal Law? 2: Judith Gardam, Michelle Jarvis: The Gendered Framework of International Humanitarian Law and the Development of International Criminal Law 3: Kirsten Campbell, Gorana Mlinarević: A Feminist Critique of Approaches to  International Criminal Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: A Case Study of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaExpanding Approaches to Gender in International Criminal Law: Beyond 'Gender = Women' and 'Gender = Crimes of Sexual Violence' 4: Dubravka Žarkov: Sexual Violence Against Men in Contemporary Warfare 5: Gloria Atiba-Davies, Leo Nwoye: Children, Gender and International Criminal Justice 6: Patricia Viseur-Sellers, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum: The International Crimes of Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Feminist Critique 7: Lisa Davis, Danny Bradley: Victory for Women and LGBTIQ Rights under International Criminal Law: Gender in the Draft Crimes against Humanity Treaty 8: Melanie O'Brien: Gender Dimensions of Forced Marriage in International Criminal Law 9: Rosemary Grey: Reproductive Crimes in International Criminal Law 10: Antonia Mulvey: Using International Criminal Law to Curb Discriminatory Practices Against Females: The Case of Female Genital MutilationEngendering Justice: The Future of International Criminal Law 11: Jonathan O'Donohue, Rosemary Grey: 'Gender-Inclusivity' in the International Criminal Court's First Reparation Proceedings 12: Daniela Kravetz: Gender and the Implementation of International Criminal Law in the Latin American Region 13: Catherine O'Rourke: Fragmentation Fears or Interaction Opportunities? The Role and Potential of International Human Rights Law in Shaping International Criminal Law's Gender Jurisprudence 14: Helen Durham, Laura Green: Contemporary Armed Conflict and Gender 15: Dianne Otto: Is International Criminal Law Particularly Impervious to Feminist Reconstruction? Legally Authorized Resistances to Feminist Judging