What are the crimes against women which the ICC can try?
The Statute gives the ICC jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Although both men and women can be the victims of most of these crimes, some of them, such as enforced pregnancy, can be committed only against women. Others, such as rape and sexual assault are committed disproportionately against women. As a result of campaigning by organizations working on behalf of the rights of women from around the world, the Rome Statute is the first international treaty to expressly recognize a broad spectrum of sexual and gender-based violence as some of the gravest crimes under international law. What crimes against humanity are of particular concern to women? The Rome Statute recognizes rape, sexual slavery, trafficking, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity as crimes against humanity. This is the first time that sexual slavery and trafficking have been expressly recognized as crim
