Women’s Human Rights – The Plight of the Migrant Domestic Violence Victim, Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention
September 13, 2018
Violence: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
August 2, 2019Women’s Human Rights Summit
– 20/22 November 2018, Lisbon, Lisbon University Law School –
Violence against women and sexual and gender-based violence are worldwide issues, affecting both developed and developing countries. The crisis disproportionately exacerbates the situation for women, girls, men, boys, and people who are vulnerable, marginalized, and discriminated against based on gender, age, marital status, sex of household head, mental and physical disabilities, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
The last 15 years have witnessed a shift in the treatment of gender-based crimes in international law, particularly from a criminal perspective.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence were incorporated in the statutory laws of the ad hoc tribunals, but also in the Statute of the International Criminal Court, and persecuted under the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.