Rape in Berlin : reconsidering the criminalisation of rape in the international law of armed conflict

Progress made in criminalisation of sexual violence in war - feminists engaged with criminal tribunals have proposed a wide range of legal rules and prosecutorial practices - achievements made in areas such as reframing rape and other sexual violations as a basis for charging humanitarian crimes - anonymous account of one woman's experiences during fall of Berlin to Soviet Army - costs of ignoring ideological discourses surrounding rape - re-thinking politics of criminalising rape in international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL).