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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Investigating sex crimes in a war zone will be hard, but accountability for these crimes against humanity is vital.
President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
Sex and gender-based offences have become an increasing focus of war crimes trials at the International Criminal Court.
Post conflict recovery is largely driven by the assumption that as soon as conflict ends, normality returns.
After colonisation, dispossession and decades of military violence, indigenous women in Guatemala are closing in on justice at last.
Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.
Domestic and sexual slavery are being used as weapons of war – and the victims are too often forgotten.
Hundreds of women rescued from the Nigerian Islamist group are pregnant after being held in sexual slavery.
Protests on Anzac Day, rather than being ‘utterly alien to Australians’, have a long tradition and embody the democratic right to dissent for which the troops fought.
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