Protection of Women against Sexual Violence: Scrutinizing Documents of Four Generations of International Criminal Courts

Sexual violence against women has been existed from long ago however the current international community has been silent in this regard. Combating impunity in its general meaning, the international criminal courts gradually have tended to explicit sexual violence against women Court- based Jurisdiction crime contradictory to the common trend. The evolutionary process of this important has facilitated the prosecution of those who seek to disrupt the international legal order. Analyzing the documents of the four generations of these judicial bodies, the present paper addresses the feasibility of international mechanisms to combat impunity against sexual violence, although according to this research, they have not been so much successful in all aspects. It seems that violence against women should be dealt with a great concern of scrutiny in terms of the cases as well as documentation.