Citation

Montanez PS, Waisman V, Yoshida K. Hum. Rights Q. 2017; 39(3): 680-706.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Johns Hopkins University Press)

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Abstract

This article provides an analysis of a number of judgments which feature sexual and gender crimes in domestic prosecutions in Argentina. The authors analyze eleven decisions where individuals have been convicted of these crimes and argue that two major lines of jurisprudence have emerged tackling gender violence perpetrated in clandestine detention centers during the military dictatorship. The judgments illustrate the domestication of international criminal legal principles and their influence on national proceedings. While these judgments are welcome and important, the authors also draw attention to some of the on-going silences in the jurisprudence and the challenges which remain. It's true that they took us out for dinner and I'll tell you something else. Once they took a group of girls out dancing, but I'm going to give you the context: they had just murdered the husband of one of the girls, and they took her out dancing in one of the most "in" nightclubs in Buenos Aires. You tell me that wasn't psychological torture at its most sophisticated-that your husband's murderers, who had beaten you and tortured you with an electric prod, should then take you out dancing.

Language: en

Keywords

law; rape; war