U.C. DAVIS JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY

This article discusses the interaction between the tenets of multiculturalism and liberalism, and questions how civil government should treat culture- or religion-based rights claims that are incompatible with gender equality. It creates three classifications in relation to recent perspectives on 'multiculturalist-liberalism' and the issue of veil-wearing by Muslim girls and women. First, 'vision-impaired liberalism' is supposedly blind to increasing harms to women caused by preferential treatment of religions. Second, 'monocular liberalism'

The author of this article argues that the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) should charge forced marriage as a crime of sexual violence. Part I explores sexual violence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the phenomenon of forced marriage. Part II addresses the importance of charging perpetrators with the crime of forced marriage and the role the OTP has in ensuring justice is done. Finally, Part III discusses the legal framework for prosecuting forced marriage under the ICTR Statute.