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The Global Justice Center published a, "Q&A: How the Systemic Discrimination against Women in Weapons Classification and Enforcement is a Serious Violation of International Humanitarian Law."
This important document explains the legal obligation of state members of the interational community to classify rape as a weapon of war. The Global Justice Center writes:
The major weapon used against women and girls in today's armed conflicts is rape. However, rape is not categorized by states as a "real" weapon, one that must be evaluated under the "intransgressible" principles of the laws of weaponry. Thus, unlike other weapons unlawful to use in armed conflict, such as starvation, herbicides, and chemical weapons, rape has never been declared to be an illegal weapon or means of warfare. Consequently, rape victims, who are disproportionately women, are denied the full panoply of remedies for their injuries, including sanctions on the violator state, available to other victims of unlawful weapons. Further, the failure to classify rape as an illegal weapon of warfare is a dangerous lapse in global security.
To read the Q&A click here.