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Based on extensive , our new article 鈥溾�� examines political insecurity as a specifically gendered harm that must be addressed in the ongoing Colombian transitional justice process.

In a we described the tragic plight of the women鈥檚 rights activist and survivor of sexual violence Ang茅lica Bello. Bello was one of the of , which sets out to guarantee access to justice for victims of sexual violence. The Law is part of the transitional justice process and seeks to bring Colombian law into harmony with international law regarding sexual violence in the context of the armed conflict. It defines crimes of sexual violence as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and sets out criteria for investigating sexual crimes and protecting survivors analogous to those of the ICC. As the in Havana between the government and the FARC guerrilla continue to make slow but steady progress, the sexual violence agenda increasingly captures the field of harms to women in war.

While recognizing the importance of this law, we nevertheless suggest that it is a problem for the ongoing transitional justice process that there are so few articulations of what other kinds of gendered harms may look like and how they should be effectively addressed.

• Read more at the , where the entire text was published 8 April 2015.