SEXUAL TERRORISM AND GUARANTEES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT AND POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS

This paper aims to test, even tentatively and circumstantially, the impact of gender violence associated with conflict and post-conflict settings, human rights and their guarantees. The research methodology has been based on the collection of primary data on the ground, through the specific work of the author in the field of human rights in the cities of Peja (Kosovo) and Foca (Bosnia Herzegovina). Also, it has been essential to make a rigorous selection and analysis of available bibliographical materials, mainly from Anglo-Saxon and American authors. The result of the investigation and analysis shows the practice of sexual terrorism, so jealously hidden as diverse in its manifestations, that allows to verify and to identify how the law fails when it comes to acknowledge the gender nature of the crimes and to draw some conclusions about the need to integrate the specific impact of women's rights into the question of effectiveness, protection and guarantee of human rights in general.