Today, a side event was organised around the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC ASP) on “Enhancing our understanding of the nexus between the crimes of conflict-related sexual violence – including slavery, the slave trade and trafficking in persons” hosted by the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the International Institutions based in The Hague, the United Nations Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Impact: Center against Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
The focus of this side event was put on recent efforts to deepen the understanding of the interplay between the different legal regimes, and their ability to address the true criminality of crimes that sit at the intersection of sexual violence in conflict, trafficking in persons, and/or slavery and the slave trade, from both the international and national perspective. Several experts have touched upon this issue in recent or forthcoming publications, namely the 2024 Special Issue of the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (JHEC), and the forthcoming report of the UN Team of Experts on the nexus between CRSV and human trafficking for sexual exploitation, with a focus on Ukraine. Similarly, the ICC Policy on Slavery Crimes is an effort to better address the legal nexus between these crimes in both international and national courts.
See more on the latest edition of the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence of Uitgeverij Paris launched today (open access to the Special Issue till 15 January 2025): https://lnkd.in/eckJgGa4 around the issue. La Strada International closely cooperates with IMPACT, especially as one of its founding members, Eefje de Volder, is a board member of La Strada International. Jointly with Anne-Marie de Brouwer she conducted the research for the report of the UN Team of Experts on the nexus between CRSV and human trafficking for sexual exploitation, with a focus on Ukraine. Members of La Strada International contributed to the practitioner survey for this research.
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