First-Class Crimes, Second-Class Justice: Cumulative Charges for Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Court

The author argues for the reconciliation of Indigenous women's rights based advocacy (which primarily aims to heal gender injustice) and Indigenous nations rights-based advocacy (which primarily aims to protect cultural distinction) through an Indigenous 'self-determination' project grounded in human rights. This project would consider women's concerns and cultural flourishing to be coequal priorities. The author argues that the reconciliation of these disparate goals requires a political shift toward critical engagement with historical and contemporary colonialism and a willingness to confront Indigenous societies' internalization of patriarchy and sexism. However, the author points out that such reconciliation is complicated by the fact that Indigenous nations attitudes toward womens rights reflect those of Settler states toward Indigenous rights.