ABSTRACT
As has been discussed by various scholars from a legal perspective, the Statute for an International Criminal Court is ‘the first international treaty to recognize a range of acts of sexual and gender violence as among the most serious crimes under international law’ (Steains, 1999: 357; see also Bedont and Hall Martinez, 1999; Boon, 2001; Oosterveld, 1999). This chapter focuses on how the gender provisions came into the Statute, discussing the ICC negotiations as a critical episode in the recurrent clash within global civil society between the women’s movement and the ‘pro-family’ movement.
