Valerie Oosterveld

Valerie Oosterveld is a full Professor at the University of Western Ontario Faculty Law, Canada. Her research and writing focus on gender issues within international criminal justice. She has published widely on the interpretation of sexual and gender-based crimes by international criminal tribunals and gender-sensitive investigation and prosecution. She is the co-editor (with Indira Rosenthal and Susana SáCouto) of Gender and International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2022), which was awarded the American Society of International Law Women in International Law Interest Group's 2023 Scholarship Book Prize. She was awarded the 2022 Royal Society of Canada’s Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. She is an active member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice and provides regular media commentary on international criminal law issues. She has served on the Canadian delegation to various International Criminal Court-related negotiations, including the Assembly of States Parties, the 2010 Review Conference, and the 1998 UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an ICC. In this latter role, she negotiated various gender provisions.

Gendered Crime as a Central Focus in the ICC’s Al-Hassan Case

By Valerie Oosterveld / July 31, 2023

The case of Prosecutor v Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mahomed Ag Mahmoud at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is precedent-setting for the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor: it is the first case in which the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds has been litigated by the ICC, and the ICC is the first …

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