Seksualno nasilje u ratu : analiza postupaka pred sudovima u Srbiji (2003–2024)
Sexual violence in war: an analysis of court proceedings in Serbia (2003–2024)

Author(s): Olivera Simić
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Special Historiographies:, Criminology, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: sexual violence; war crime; Serbia; Yugoslavia
Summary/Abstract: Since its establishment in 2003, the Public Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes (JTRZ) of the Republic of Serbia has filed 106 indictments against individuals for crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Only 13 indictments include incidents of sexual violence, which indicates that in the current practice of the domestic judiciary, sexual violence is rarely prosecuted, and even then most often as a war crime that appears alongside murders and other types of physical violence. Considering the prevalence of rape and other forms of sexual violence in armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that the domestic judiciary did not pay due attention to these crimes.

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