ABSTRACT
During the 1990s, the international community witnessed an array of humanitarian crises. Although at that time international law already proscribed specific kinds of State behaviours within national borders, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass atrocities, and mass internal displacement of citizens were still happening. As a result, in 1999 Kofi Annan challenged the international community to develop a way of reconciling the twin principles of sovereignty and the protection of fundamental human rights. Prevention of genocide is still partial and some indicators are still missing. This research seeks to discover what impact gender equality has on genocide and to verify whether it might be one of these missing indicators. Indeed, many scholars have argued that a domestic environment of gender inequality and violence results in greater likelihood of violence both at the national and international level. According to the existing literature, there is a correlation between levels of violence, international conflicts, intrastate armed conflicts, civil wars, and gender inequality.
