The Court noted that the crime of forced marriage was not exclusively, or predominantly, sexual and as such was not fully encompassed by the crime of sexual slavery. The women who testified in the case described the forced marriages as having encompassed a series of violations, including abduction, forced labour, deprivations of liberty, corporal punishment, assault and sexual violence.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences