Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) remains one of the most pervasive yet least prosecuted crimes in modern warfare. Only in the last century has CRSV been adequately codified under international criminal law. Meeting the crimes against humanity generally requires evidence at the macro scale, demonstrating that individual acts were not isolated but part of a command directive with clear organizational linkage.

These legal and doctrinal limitations, along with the normalization of sexual violence as a by-product of war, conspire to obscure justice. Building on the recent framework proposed by The Dinah Project, this column explores how legal systems might evolve to bridge the justice gap through expanding evidentiary approaches while centering survivor-sensitive methodologies to adequa

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