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What defines gender-based sexual violence (SGBV)? According to this paper, it depends on the recognition that it’s a human rights violation. But as Jens Bartelson sees it, there are three types of recognition – moral/social, political, and legal – and that the first type can (and does) evolve into the third. Indeed, that’s what happened to SGBV. It began as a norm that ultimately became a legal prohibition within the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court system, as described here.