The United Nations Responses to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by Peacekeepers during Peacekeeping Missions

Abstract

International law concerning sexual violence has developed dramatically during the past 50 years.Within the field of international criminal law, there has been a transformation from the Nuremberg Tribunal's failure to acknowledge crimes of a sexual nature to the specific definitions of sexual crimes in the text of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) 1 and in the jurisprudence of both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 2 and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).3 Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor of the Yugoslav tribunal, observed that "when the [Yugoslav] tribunal closes its doors, part of its legacy will be the condemnation of sexual violence against women during times of conflict".4 Set against the historical silence surrounding war-time sexual violence, the progress achieved over *

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