Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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GACACA TRIALS: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS TO THE COMPLIANCE OF RESOLUTION 1325 OF SECURITY COUNCIL

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  • Valeria Rodríguez Quesada
Valeria Rodríguez Quesada
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Published 2023-05-10

Keywords

  • Justice,
  • participation,
  • Public International Law,
  • women,
  • sexual violence

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Rodríguez Quesada, V. (2023). GACACA TRIALS: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS TO THE COMPLIANCE OF RESOLUTION 1325 OF SECURITY COUNCIL. Rhombus, 2(2), 1–15. Retrieved from https://revistas.ulacit.ac.cr/index.php/rhombus/article/view/13

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Abstract

Resolution 1325 of the United Nations Security Council defines a series of obligations to guarantee the participation of women during armed conflicts and transition processes. After the genocide occurred in Ruanda, an internal community transitional justice mechanism was installed in this country, aiming to judge some of the most severe atrocities committed during the event, including sexual violence. Then, the general objective of this article is to analyze the implementation of Resolution 1325 in the gacaca trials in Rwanda during the period 2008 2012. The methods consisted of a documentary analysis of reports about gacaca trials, about a doctrinal and normative analysis of Resolution 1325, from a gender perspective. The article concludes that the gacaca courts achieved significant compliance with the obligations arising from Resolution 1325 and argues that, although these trials were not able to respond to all demands of victims of sexual violence, the gacaca courts were an African response to the demands of local women, with their logics, contradictions, and limitations.
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