War is the theater of our worst impulses.Yet somewhere in the mud and dust, the blood and bullets, the lying and the dying, the rule of law holds firm. Even when man's inhumanity to man seems to bring us to our knees, the law still stands. Perhaps, most strikingly, on the issue of sexual violence.In 2008, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820, which noted that "rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, or a constitutive act with respect to genocide." Just this week, a Syrian rebel leader reported that women in East Aleppo are choosing to kill themselves rather than face rape at the hands of Assad's troops, and groups like Amnesty International warn that potential war crimes are occurring in the beseiged city.If this is the case, it is groundbreaking legal conventions like Resolution 1820 that will bring the perpetrators to justice. It is, of course, scant comfort to those trapped in the conflict—but for Helen Durham, who helped to define rape as a war crime, the delivery of justice is an integral part of the peace process.As the ICRC launch their new report, People on War, which surveyed 17,000 people in 16 countries—some, like Afghanistan and South Sudan, that are experiencing conflict, as well as permanent members of the UN Security Council like the UK—I caught up with Durham in a small meeting room overlooking the roofs of Moorgate at the Red Cross office in London, to ask how such a definition came about, and how it can actually change things in the real, messy world of war.Read the rest of this article over on BROADLY.To celebrate International Women's Day tomorrow, VICELAND and the Women's Collective are transforming the Princess Ballroom at Auckland's Pullman Hotel into a mass-scale air bed cinema, for a special marathon screening of Gloria Steinem's Emmy-nominated VICELAND series, WOMAN. March 8, 7 PM.