Mongolian peacekeepers of the 8th Contingent trained at the Tavan Tolgoi Peace Operations
Support Training Centre before deployment to protect the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe
(d) Integrating a gender perspective90
To integrate a gender analysis into the identification and profiling of perpetrators,
investigators should distance themselves from stereotypical beliefs which tend to
focus predominantly on men as perpetrators. Men, women and others can commit
human rights violations and crimes. Meanwhile, a gender analysis ensures that the
power structures and dynamics that compelled each of them to participate in such
conduct – the effects of which vary significantly according to one’s gender – are
taken fully into account.
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For further information see OHCHR Guidance Note: Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights
Investigations by Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions (forthcoming). The information here
has been partly adapted from that text. See for example pp. 16-24 on investigation preparation.
ATTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
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