WISCONSIN WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL

This comment discusses rape in Bosnia and the response of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It explores the impact of the new "gender consciousness" on the personnel, structure and procedure of rape prosecution and assesses women's place in international humanitarian law. After a brief overview of the conflict in the region (Section I), the comment turns to an analysis of the information available on the systematic mass rapes perpetrated by Bosnian Serbs against Bosnian Muslims (Section II).

This article deals with the prosecution of rape under international law. The author begins by offering an overview of motivations for the rape of women in armed conflict and then goes on to trace the treatment of mass rape as genocide in treaties and conventions such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, highlighting the use of this treatment in case law at international tribunals and the International Criminal Court (ICC).