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Forced Marriage Recognized as New International Crime

By International Association of Penal Law

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The Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone recently ruled that forced marriage is a new category of crime against humanity, reversing the Trial Chamber’s determination that forced marriage was not distinct from the previously recognized crimes against humanity of rape, forced prostitution, and sexual slavery.   “What had occurred here with forced marriage was something very serious and very specific, and wasn’t fully recognized,” Stephen Rapp, the chief prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, told the Christian Science Monitor last week. “It was part of a widespread attack against civilians. Women were being taken as wives without consent, either consent by them … or by family members...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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