Gender Crimes in International Criminal Law
Sat 01 Sept
|ADC-ICT
Too often, the concept of ‘gender crimes’ is understood as being synonymous with sexual crimes or crimes against women. This training session will address the relationship between sexual violence and gender-based violence, and will highlighted the gendered aspects of other international crimes.


Time & Location
01 Sept 2018, 10:45 – 16:30
ADC-ICT, Churchillplein 1, 2517 JW Den Haag, Netherlands
About The Event
Too often, the concept of ‘gender crimes’ is understood as being synonymous with sexual crimes or crimes against women. This training session will address the relationship between sexual violence and gender-based violence, and will highlighted the gendered aspects of other international crimes such as genocide, enslavement, torture and persecution. In addition, it will examine how acts of sexual and gender-based violence against both men and women have been addressed by international criminal law, and will critically analyse the legal, institutional and evidentiary obstacles which have led to such crimes historically being minimized or overlooked.
From January to December 2017, Niamh Hayes was seconded by UN Women as an expert advisor on gender, working in the Investigative Analysis Section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She will shortly take up a position as a Legal Officer in the Gender and Children Unit of the Office of…
Tickets
External Participant
This ticket is for external participants.
€36.00
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This ticket is only for interns on defence teams at the MICT and ADC-ICT members.
€21.00
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