Concerning access to justice and accountability, crimes of sexual violence mu...

Concerning access to justice and accountability, crimes of sexual violence must be prosecuted and punished under national and international law. In that regard, we emphasize the significant advances made in international law by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the non-permanent international criminal tribunals relating to combating sexual violence in conflict, as well as national efforts to implement the Statute. We also support targeted and graduated measures by the relevant Security Council Sanctions Committees aimed at perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict. In that regard, we note the resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (resolution 2134 (2014)), which includes sexual violence as part of the designation criteria for targeted sanctions.