31 March 2026. The analysis also underscores the broader stakes for international accountability mechanisms. It shows how institutional responses that fail to account for power dynamics, trauma, and intersectionality can erode confidence and discourage reporting, ultimately affecting the Court’s credibility.
It calls on the Assembly of States Parties to ensure a process free from misogyny and victim-blaming, and to commit to trauma-informed, survivor-sensitive standards in this and all future investigations of sexual harassment and assault within the Court, aligned with the Court’s mandate to address impunity, including for gender-based crimes.
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Exposing the misogyny in the handling of the sexual misconduct allegations against the ICC Prosecutor