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Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Military Contingents: Moving beyond the Current Status Quo and Responsibility under International Law. By Róisín Sarah Burke. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2014. 384 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2016

JENNIFER BOYCZUK*
Affiliation:
Counsel, City Solicitor’s Office, City of Toronto16
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Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2016 

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References

1 Richard Goldstone, “Prosecuting Rape as a War Crime” (2002) 34 Case W Res J Int’l L 277 at 283.

2 Report of the Secretary General, Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, UN Doc A/69/779 (2015) [Secretary-General’s 2015 Report].

3 Róisín Sarah Burke, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Military Contingents: Moving beyond the Current Status Quo and Responsibility under International Law (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2014) at 9.

4 Ibid at 2.

5 Secretary-General’s 2015 Report, supra note 2 at paras 4–5.

6 Burke, supra note 3 at 64, 83.

7 Ibid at 178.

8 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, [2004] ICJ Rep 136 at para 109.

9 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998, 2187 UNTS 90, arts 7–8 [Rome Statute].

10 Burke, supra note 3 at 225.

11 See “Troop and Police Contributors,” online: United Nations Peacekeeping <www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors.shtml>; “The States Parties to the Rome Statute”, online: International Criminal Court <www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/asp/states%20parties/Pages/the%20states%20parties%20to%20the%20rome%20statute.aspx#B>.

12 Sylvia de Bertodano, “Problems Arising from the Mixed Composition and Structure of the Cambodian Extraordinary Chambers” (2006) 4 Int’l Crim Just 285 at 287.

13 Secretary General’s 2015 Report, supra note 2 at para 60.

14 Burke, supra note 3 at 266.

15 Ibid at 307.

16 The views expressed in this review are those of the reviewer and not necessarily of the City Solicitor’s Office of the City of Toronto.