including a broad range of sexual and gender-based crimes.
The Duterte government’s withdrawal from the ICC is a repudiation of years of work of women and human rights groups. It is a renouncement of our rights as a people.
Women’s groups pushed for years for the 1998 Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as for its ratification by the Philippines.
The ICC’s mandate to address impunity for crimes against humanity included atrocities commonly experienced by women,