{"id":66407,"date":"2016-03-22T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/international-criminal-court-bemba-verdict-a-historic-step-forward-for-victims-of-sexual-violence\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:04:29","slug":"international-criminal-court-bemba-verdict-a-historic-step-forward-for-victims-of-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/international-criminal-court-bemba-verdict-a-historic-step-forward-for-victims-of-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"International Criminal Court: Bemba verdict a historic step forward for victims of sexual violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> LONDON, United Kingdom, March 21, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s unanimous guilty verdict by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Jean-Pierre Bemba is an historic moment in the battle for justice and accountability for victims of sexual violence in the Central African Republic and around the world,\u201d said Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cNot only is it the first time that the ICC has convicted someone for rape as a war crime but it is also the first ICC\u00a0conviction based on command responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgment sends a clear message that impunity for sexual violence as a tool of war will not be tolerated. It also makes clear that military commanders and political superiors must take all necessary steps to\u00a0prevent their subordinates from committing such heinous acts and will be held accountable if they fail to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, United Kingdom, March 21, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; \u201cToday\u2019s unanimous guilty verdict by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Jean-Pierre Bemba is an historic moment in the battle for justice and accountability for victims of sexual violence in the Central African Republic and around the world,\u201d said Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Deputy Regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-66407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}