NEW ZEALAND WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL

Women without a Voice : Japan's Silencing of Its Comfort Women and the Redemptive Future the Tokyo Women's Tribunal Offers to the Gendered and Colonial History of International Law

For decades, international legal actors have failed to bring justice to the victims of the “comfort women” system implemented by Japan during the Second World War, highlighting the gendered discrimination of the international legal framework towards non-western women. The author recounts the history of conflict-based sexual violence in Japan and the inadequacy of international response.

Prosecuting Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Future of the Common Criminal Purpose at International Criminal Law

This article explores the consequences of sexual violence falling outside of the common criminal purpose by drawing comparisons between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The ICTY, the mandate of which has now ended, managed to convict on sexual violence charges due to the mode of liability of extended joint criminal enterprise.