[Actions to be taken by Governments:] Examine and consider modifying existing legal definitions and standards to ensure that they encompass concerns of all women and girls affected by armed conflict, and, in particular, reaffirm that rape, systematic rape and sexual slavery in armed conflict constitute war crimes;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Gender
Humanitarian
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
1998
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CSW Agreed Conclusions, Women and armed conflict (1998), A.