Sixty-second session
	Third Committee
Agenda item 63
Advancement of women



		Gambia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/62/L.16/Rev.1 


		Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including as instruments to achieve political or military objectives


1.	Insert the following new preambular paragraph after the sixth preambular paragraph:
	“Recognizing that under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Court has the mandate and jurisdiction to prosecute cases of rape as a war crime, including those committed by service members, and States parties to the Statute are under an obligation to assist the Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction”.
2.	In the old seventh preambular paragraph (now the new eighth preambular paragraph), delete the word “further”.









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