Documents & Publications

UN Documents, Resources & Publications
Femicide Report VI
Femicide Report Vol. VI: Violence Against Girls in Flight
Femicide Report Vol. V: A Global Issue That Demands Action
Femicide Report Vol. IV: A Global Issue That Demands Action
Resolution May 2015 during the 24th Session of the UN’s Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
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Femicide Volume III – Targeting of Women in Conflict

Link to the Full Report:

http://acuns.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Femicide-III_Core-Stanzell.pdf

ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) takes great pride in sharing with you the third volume of our Femicide Publication which we have been releasing annually since the first Femicide symposium in November 2012. Each year, on the occasion of the International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Vienna Liaison Office of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) has organized a symposium on a different theme related to the most extreme forms of violence.

On 25 November 2014, ACUNS, together with the Governments of Austria, Croatia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Norway, Philippines and Thailand, sponsored a symposium on ‘Targeting of Women in War’, which brought together panels of experts to address the various challenges that need to be tackled with great urgency to curb the scourge of sexual violence in conflict. A series of recommendations were made, pointing out that existing legal instruments have proven to be ineffective in addressing this global problem. Perpetrators should be prosecuted and military units must be held to high standards of conduct vis-à-vis civilians. Strict compliance with military and criminal codes must be pursued by the responsible government institutions, while complementary efforts must be undertaken by civil society to ensure proper respect for women and girls in conflict zones.

Once again, we are standing as silent witnesses to the mass killings of women in several places around the world. It is imperative to take concrete steps to stop these unspeakable crimes and ensure that these monstrous rapists and killers are not given impunity. Speakers at the ACUNS conference identified what was done – or not done – after the mass killings in Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. In his annual Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, highlights the ongoing challenges faced by individual States in conflict and post-conflict situations to protect women and girls.

Reports published in 2014 and early 2015 by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch contain detailed accounts of sexual slavery in Islamic State captivity, Boko Haram’s acts of sexual violence in north-eastern Nigeria and mass rapes in Darfur. The sheer brutality of these acts and the feelings of desperation that are reflected in victims’ testimonies fill us with disgust and shame. These barbarities which one would have thought belonged to past centuries have reared their heads again in the new millennium. The latest figures on mass rapes and incidents of sexual slavery across the world are discouraging. The international community should not stand idly by while these atrocious crimes are being committed. It is essential for the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to give a strong signal that crimes of sexual violence are not to be tolerated, and that the perpetrators will be brought to justice.

This publication explores the topic of ‘Targeting women in Conflict’ in depth, through a series of strong statements delivered by Secretary-General, the Director of UN Women, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, a prosecutor from the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and reports from other UN bodies, as well as academic articles addressing the cross- cutting topics of violence against women, femicide and sexual violence.

The ACUNS-Vienna Femicide Team has committed itself over the past three years to disseminating knowledge on the cross-cutting issue of femicide and engaging with UN practitioners, academics and NGO representatives in order to raise this matter of great importance higher on the international agenda. We continue to encourage UN bodies and national governments to improve efforts in tackling femicide and the most serious forms of sexual violence against women.

Femicide Volume II – Global Issue that Demands Action Vol. II

Link to the Full Report of Volume II:

http://bit.ly/2cZveqP

 

Femicide Report (Vol. I): A Global Issue that Demands Action

Femicide_A_Gobal_Issue_that_demands_Action_pdfDownload the PDF document here:

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Femicide Flier

Femicide_Publication_II_pdfDownload the print-ready flier

UNODC Documents for the 11- 13 November 2014 Femicide Working Group Meetings

UNODC

Main Documents

Contribution from NGO & Academia: E-CN15-2014-CRP5_E.pdf

Summary of Replies from Countries: E-CN15-2014-CRP4_E.pdf

All UN Documents will be posted at this location for the November Meeting:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/expert-group-meetings7.html

UN Women Documents

– Good Practices in Legislation on Violence against Women (+rest of docs that came out of the UN Women and UNODC Expert Group Meeting in 2008)
– Handbook for Legislation on Violence against Women (UN Women, 2012)
– Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence against Women (UN Women, 2012)

ICC Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender Based Crimes

OTP-Policy-Paper-on-Sexual-and-Gender-Based-Crimes--June-2014_pdfThis paper is from June 2013

http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/OTP-Policy-Paper-on-Sexual-and-Gender-Based-Crimes–June-2014.pdf 

 

International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict

PSVI_protocol_web_pdf From the London summit

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/319054/PSVI_protocol_web.pdf

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