The ICC statute includes explicit provisions for crimes of sexual and gender violence, identifying as crimes against humanity and war crimes, conduct that is directed specifically against women, such as “rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, enforced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable violence”.
Le Statut de la CPI comporte des dispositions visant explicitement les infractions de nature sexuelle et cerne comme crimes contre l'humanité et crimes de guerre les actes de violence dont font spécifiquement l'objet les femmes comme le viol, l'esclavage sexuel, la prostitution forcée, la grossesse forcée, la stérilisation forcée ou toute autre forme de violence sexuelle de gravité comparable.