Sexual violence perpetrated in armed conflicts is an old problem, long naturalized, considered
an inevitable by-product or effect of its context. The adoption of the Rome Statute in 2002,
which created the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC), was an important milestone
in international law, as it included sexual violence as war crimes, crimes against humanity and
genocide. From an intersectional feminist framework, our general goal is to analyze the extent
to which the ICC incorporates an intersectional approach in the judgment of cases of sexual
violence in armed conflicts. For this, our methodology was bibliographical, in the construction
of our theoretical basis, predominantly from works and scientific articles by feminist authors;
and documentary, referring to the analysis of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions
and the Annual Reports of the United Nations Secretary-General on the subject, the preparatory
works for the Rome Statute, including the participation of feminist social movements, and the
ICC rulings, from an intersectional feminist perspective. In the first chapter, we situated the
problem of sexual violence in armed conflicts and contextualize intersectionality in feminist
epistemologies. In the second, we discussed stereotypes about sexual violence and its
reproduction in the social field, in the context of armed conflicts and in the legal sphere. In the
third, we dedicated ourselves to reading the selected casos of the ICC. In general, there is still
a majority narrative that women are included in armed conflicts only as civilians and victims
of sexual violence, while men are soldiers and aggressors. However, counter-narratives are
identified, so that the ICC gradually seems to break certain patterns and stereotypes. We
highlight how the struggle of feminist movements was essential for this context, and should
therefore remain constant.
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