This article focuses on the role of all states in enforcing the weapons framework and it calls for states to undertake an impact and injuries assessment of strategic rape under the Article 36 weapons review process. Other potential benefits include the opening up of civil and criminal accountability frameworks and others which provide restitution and reparations for war rape victims. for war rape range from sociobiological theory undergirded by male sexual desire to strategic or genocidal theory that posits rape as a Aweapon of war. In war rape, the enemy soldier attacks a civilian (not a combatant). humiliate, and control behavior, rape in war can also be a strategy to. War rape is perhaps the clearest example of an asymmetric strategy. Embedding strategic rape under IHL's weapons framework will increase its stigmatization, a critical factor in stopping the use of abhorrent weapons or tactics in war. In war, rape is an assault on both the individual victim and her family and. This article links the intransigent use of strategic rape with states' failure to treat it as an unlawful tactic of war under the rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) that regulate the ‘means and methods of war’. Despite concerted global efforts over the last two decades to end its use, rape as a tool of war continues undeterred.
The Security Council has found that the endemic use of rape in war for military advantage – which is primarily targeted against women and girls – is a military tactic that presents a threat to global peace and security. The use of rape as a strategic weapon of war dates back to ancient times.
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