Protect women from sexual violence during armed conflicts - Iraq as a case study -

Abstract

Despite the existence of international conventions that protect women from violence during armed conflicts, as well as practices of international criminal courts in this regard, serious violations are committed against women, especially crimes related to sexual violence, which constitutes an exclusive model topic of studies n both international law and domestic law, to confront and prevent them. Iraq represents an important model for studying in this regard because the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have committed crimes of sexual violence against Yazidi women and demonstrate international and national efforts to confront it. The study includes four topics. There is the concept of sexual violence against women in armed conflict, international protection of women from sexual violence in armed conflict, practices of international criminal courts on crimes of sexual violence against women, and confrontation crimes of sexual violence against Yazidi women in Iraq.