Neither the Nuremberg or Tokyo Charters contained an explicit provision recognizing sexual and gender-based crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity , although Control Council Law No. 10 recognized rape as a crime against humanity . The statutes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda both included rape as a crime against humanity . The ICC is the first international instrument expressly to include various forms of sexual and gender-based crimes including rape , sexual slavery , enforced prostitution , forced pregnancy , enforced sterilisation , and other forms of sexual violence as both an underlying act of crimes against humanity and war crime committed in international and/or non-international armed conflicts . As an example , the events of Khojaly and Khatyn can be shown that the world strongly condemns . International institutions have asked for a ransom to avoid such incidents . There are hundreds of massacres , thousands of prisoners and wounded in these incidents
Khatyn
Khatyn massacre
Crimes against humanity