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These pages of Canada's Foreign Affairs website outline the key gender provisions in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and provide information on the International Criminal Court more generally and Canada's relationship to it. The information describes how the Rome Statute represents an important advance in the prosecution of crimes of sexual violence and gender-based crimes during armed conflict more generally, both of which have traditionally been under-investigated and under-prosecuted. [Descriptors: Armed Conflict, Canada]