This year has been especially horrific for the women of South Africa. On October 15, two little girls, aged 2 and 3, were found in a public toilet in Diepsloot, a settlement in the north of Johannesburg, according to news reports. The girls, both cousins, who had been abducted in broad daylight, had been raped and strangled.

We're off talk of "intervention" in Syria, and on to trying to get everyone to the negotiating table. It's not going very well.

In late September, a Malian woman told UN workers that she had been raped, and identified four Chadian soldiers—UN peacekeepers—as her rapists, according to a BBC report. A UN spokesman issued a statement a few days later, reaffirming the organization’s zero commitment policy against sexual abuse and calling on the Chadian government to fully investigate the matter.

Virtually unnoticed in September amid news of back-to-school sales and Miley Cyrus twerking at the Video Music Awards was a report released by Human Rights Watch called “I Can Still Smell the Dead.”

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was established in 1993 to prosecute “persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory.” But taking into account the thousands of victims of sexualized violence from the conflict is comprehensive prosecution even feasible?