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Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?: 38
Author(s): Maria Eriksson (Author)
- Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
- Publication Date: 28 Oct. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 624 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004202633
- ISBN-13: 9789004202634
Book Description
The crime of rape has been prevalent in all contexts, whether committed during armed conflict or in peacetime, and has largely been characterised by a culture of impunity. International law, through its branches of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, has increasingly condemned such violence and is progressively obliging states to prevent rape, whether committed by a state agent or a private actor.
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About the Author
Maria Eriksson has, after finishing a degree in law at Uppsala University, researched and taught mainly international human rights law and international criminal law at Örebro University as well as worked as a clerk at the International Criminal Court, The Hague.
