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7 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs 45 (1997)
Intentional Prosecution of Sexual Assaults

handle is hein.journals/tlcp7 and id is 59 raw text is: Intentional Prosecution of Sexual Assaults Patricia Viseur Sellers and Kaoru Okuizumi* I. Introduction ......................................................................................... 46 II. Intent to Prosecute Sexual Assaults ................................................... 47 A. The Report of the Secretary-General and the statute .............. 48 B. Rules of Procedure and Evidence ............................................... 50 C. Indictments ................................................................................. 54 III. Legal Difficulties in Prosecuting Sexual Assaults .............................. 56 A. Sexual Assaults Under the Statute ........................................... 57 B. Command Responsibility .......................................................... 62 IV. Sexual Assaults and the International Criminal Court ..................... 68 A. Sexual Assaults as a War Crime ............................................... 69 B. Developments Towards an International Criminal Court ..... 73 C. Implications and Prospects ........................................................ 77 V. Conclusion ............................................................................................ 80 * Ms. Sellers is the Legal Advisor for Gender-Related Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ms. Okuizumi was an Intern in the Office of the Prosecutor and is currently a graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. These comments are made in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the views of either the Office of the Prosecutor or the United Nations.

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