Towards an evolved model of care for victims of gender based sexual violence committed during armed conflict in the DRC.Towards an evolved model of care for victims of gender based sexual violence committed during armed conflict in the DRC. ; Vers un modèle évolué de prise en charge des victimes des violences sexuelles basées sur le genre commises en période de conflits armés. Cas de la République Démocratique du Congo

For approximately 27 years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by armed conflicts, currently persisting in the eastern part of the country. Thousands have lost their lives, and women and girls have endured various and exceptional harms from sexual violence, compounded by stigma and social ostracization. Despite progressive national and international legal frameworks, impunity persists, denying victims access to the right to redress. The dysfunctional national judicial system, guided by conventional criminal and reparative principles, reveals the weakness of the domestic response to the implicated international crimes. In the context of transitional justice revival, traditional national approaches to criminal justice and reparations prove inadequate in the dual national and international setting. A unique comprehensive approach addressing international crimes, focusing on the autonomy of sexual violence as a weapon of war in the DRC, gives rise to a transitional justice mechanism encompassing both judicial and extrajudicial aspects. In a geopolitical landscape marked by UN disengagement and the erosion of international responsibility, the prospect of a judicial mechanism constructed with a crescendo approach to the internationalization or denationalization of concurrent jurisdiction between national courts (Judicial Special Chambers) and the Special Criminal Court for the DRC, an international tribunal, constitutes the innovation of this thesis. ; Depuis environ vingt-sept ans, la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) est en proie aux conflits armés qui se poursuivent actuellement dans l'Est de ce pays. On y compte plusieurs milliers de morts et de femmes et filles violées. Ces dernières ont subi des préjudices divers et exceptionnels causés par les actes de violences sexuelles, amplifiés par la stigmatisation et l’ostracisation sociale.Nonobstant l’existence d’un cadre juridique national et international progressiste, l’impunité persiste. Les victimes n’ont toujours pas accès au droit à ...