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Details how the Rome statute can be used to include gender in the section on crimes against humanity to protect women and girls from entrenched, systematic, traditions of violence

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Why is it important?

Gender is not yet part of the protected categories under the crimes against humanity section of the Rome statute -- and this needs to be changed

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This page is a summary of: Can international law protect half of humanity? A new strategy to stop violence against women, Journal of Aggression Conflict and Peace Research, April 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jacpr-12-2013-0036.
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