Las víctimas invisibles ante la Justicia penal internacional

Abstract

This paper analyzes the role that victims of massive violations of human rights play before international criminal justice. Specifically, it intends to address an analysis of the jurisprudential evolution that has taken place in relation to international crimes and the prosecution of the main perpetrators. In this sense, violence against women and children in armed conflicts is a reality since they become targets and instruments of war. The implementation of the rights of these especially vulnerable victims in the criminal process has led to and generated a significant change in judicial protection by providing judicial mechanisms that imply a progressive recognition of the existence of this type of violence, and the end of the impunity.