Illuminating affects: Sexual violence as a crime against humanity. The Argentine case

Impunity or immunity: wartime male rape and sexual torture as a crime against humanity.

This paper seeks to analyze the phenomenon of wartime rape and sexual torture of Croatian and Iraqi men and to explore the avenues for its prosecution under international humanitarian and human rights law. Male rape, in time of war, is predominantly an assertion of power and aggression rather than an attempt on the part of the perpetrator to satisfy sexual desire. The effect of such a horrible ...

Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?

Sexual assault as a crime against young people.

Evidence based on almost 300,000 sexual assaults from the National Incident-Based Reporting System showed that the modal age of victims was 15 years, regardless of the age of the offender, the gender of the offender, or the gender of the victim. We suggest that adolescents have the highest risk of victimization because of their sexual attractiveness, vulnerability, and exposure to motivated off...

Sexual violence against women: a challenge.

Sexual abuse is a serious global public health issue with wide-ranging consequences for the physical, emotional and socioeconomic wellbeing of the survivor [1]. Worldwide, up to 35% of women are estimated to have suffered some form of physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, with 20% reporting childhood abuse [2]. In 2012, the United Nations called for a global concerted effort to imp...

Gender selection: a crime against humanity or the exercise of a fundamental right?

This article will not discuss the technical points raised in the paper by Fugger et al. (Fugger et al., 1998), nor will it consider how semen is obtained, since by definition it is unacceptable, for example from the Vatican’s point of view. Let us suppose that all problems of safety and efficiency have also been solved. It seems we have to consider several kinds of possible indications: (i) pre...