Source: https://iccforum.com/forum/sgbv
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 09:37:26+00:00

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What about Sexual and Gender-Based Violence or other crimes committed by officers of International Organisations? ICC officers included of course. For instance sexual harassment is an interesting topic or power games with (former) staff members. Are female staff members safe from transgressions? If not, which steps can they take? The Law must apply to everyone. Fight impunity.
The problem, however, may be partially due to the Court rather than the OTP. This comment examines select cases that suggest that the ICTY, ICTR and ICC may have higher evidentiary standards for sexual and gender based crimes than for other crimes. Specifically, Part II discusses the ad hoc tribunal’s seemingly higher evidentiary standards for sexual and gender based crimes, focusing on Prosecutor v. Kajelijeli , Prosecutor v. Muvunyi , Prosecutor v. Gacumbitsi and Prosecutor v. Brđanin . Part III examines Prosecutor v. Katanga , the ICC’s latest conviction, which suggests that the ICC may similarly be applying a higher evidentiary standard for sexual and gender based crimes. While there is limited support from which to draw this conclusion by solely studying the ICC, due to fewer convictions and the relative youth of the Court, Katanga as a case study supports that the ICC may follow the same pattern evidenced by the ICTY and ICTR.
The outcome in the Katanga case appears to align with those of the ICTY and ICTR; similar to the ad hoc tribunals, the ICC may be applying a higher evidentiary standard for sexual and gender based crimes, even when the sexual violence for which the defendant is charged occurs during the same attack as the other charges.
An examination of Prosecutor v. Kajelijeli , Prosecutor v. Muvunyi , Prosecutor v. Gacumbitsi and Prosecutor v. Brđanin and Prosecutor v. Katanga suggests that the international courts are applying a higher evidentiary standard for cases involving sexual and gender based crimes than for other crimes. While the solutions proposed in the OTP’s Draft Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender Based Crimes may help alleviate some of the problems that are unique to sexual and gender based crimes, to fully address the problem, it may also be necessary to evaluate the evidentiary standards imposed by the Court.
And who fights the (s)extortion thing going on by ICC supervisors? For instance april 2013 BBC reported about sexual abuses committed by ICC officers, but soon all articles were removed. ICC officers harass their female staff sexually and always get away with it. "La maltrata cuando pueda." Bribe institutions? Sure, this always works. Impunity for ever and innocent tax payers have to pay for all this hanky panky. Three verdicts in fourteen years, this says quite much about the work of the ICC.

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