Abstract
Feminist legal scholars played a prominent role in surfacing gender-based crimes and developing the international criminal justice system in the last three decades,1 from as early as the first horrific reports of the systematic mass rape of mainly Bosnian Muslim women throughout the Yugoslav dissolution war of 1992–1995.2 Due to the failure of the international criminal tribunals and courts to adequately prosecute wartime rape and other forms of sexual violence in the past three decades, gender-based crimes were inflicted on a massive scale as an integral part of ethnic and civil armed conflicts, by both enemies and supporters,3 in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, and other countries recently torn by sectarianism and civil war, particularly Libya and Syria.4 As a result of the rampant mass rape that prevailed in conflicts over the past three decades, international criminal law has witnessed unprecedented developments,...
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