This article examines the legal status of
forced marriages during armed conflict.
The author contends that such marriages
should be considered enslavement under
international law rather than a new and
separate crime against humanity. By
analyzing the conflicts of Sierra Leone,
Liberia, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic
Republic of Congo, the author argues that
forced marriages ought not to be
conceptualized as a "new" crime against
humanity as the Appeals Chamber of the
Special Court for Sierra Leone has done.
Instead, it is imperative to use the lens