Ntaganda Case: Lessons learnt from Katanga, Lubanga, and Bemba Cases

The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda was the first case in which the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a conviction on sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBCs). However, Ntaganda´s condemnation for rape and sexual slavery came as the crowning point of a lengthy process of development of the Court´...

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Autor: Amaral, Ana Silvia Sanches
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Eletrônica de Direito Penal e Política Criminal
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/128691
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/redppc/article/view/128691
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Sumario:The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda was the first case in which the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a conviction on sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBCs). However, Ntaganda´s condemnation for rape and sexual slavery came as the crowning point of a lengthy process of development of the Court´s approach to the prosecution of sexual and gender crimes, along three cases- Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Germain Katanga e Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. The present work analyses the impact of each of the cases in the International Criminal Court handling of sexual and gender-based crimes and how they paved the way for punishmenr of Ntaganda for the crimes of rape and sexual slavery.