Bringing Justice to Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence in Cambodia - Dr Rosemary Grey

Gender-based crimes, especially rape, sexual violence and forced marriage, are extremely common in times of war. The consequences for victims and their communities are devastating. Despite that, these crimes have historically been largely invisible in international war crimes trials. For the last 10 years, Dr Rosemary Grey's work has focused on making gender-based crimes more visible in international war crime trials in order to increase justice to victims, especially women and girls. In this podcast, Dr Rosemary Grey talks with Dr Natali Pearson about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, which sexual violence and gender-based crimes it did or did not prosecute, as well as the role of art as a tool for justice and healing for these crimes. About Dr Rosemary Grey: Rosemary joined the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and the Sydney Law School. Rosemary’s research focuses on gender & international criminal law, particularly the prosecution of gender-based crimes in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). In 2019, she published a book with Cambridge University Press, entitled 'Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Court'. Recently she’s turned her attention to matters of accountability and inclusivity in other global courts. She is currently working to conduct the first comprehensive gender assessment of the United Nations backed ‘Khmer Rouge Tribunal, whose mandate is to prosecute genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other offences committed in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Rosemary has consulted and interned for key organisations in the international criminal justice field, including Amnesty International, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, the International Bar Association, and the ICC. You can follow Rosemary on Twitter @Rosemary_Grey.