ABSTRACT
In sub-Saharan Africa the connection between sexual violence and violent conflicts has clearly been demonstrated. We will start by observing that the international community – including the African Union – has produced a number of important regulations, reports and recommendations have been insufficiently implemented by the national systems. The impunity of perpetrators and underreporting by victims are just the tip of the iceberg. The multiform nature of access to justice for victims of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is explored through the specific case of the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR). An analysis that will lead us to affirm that CRSV has to be addressed through a cross-disciplinary perspective which incorporates legal, military, judicial, political, psychosocial, economic, education and gender dimensions.
