International ‘Victim-centred’ Justice and the Crisis of Legitimacy: Who Speaks on Behalf of Rohingya Women?

This article describes the outsized influence of international human rights actors in determining how justice should be pursued for Rohingya women and explains how efforts to consult with this community have been largely limited to informing them about already-existing mechanisms, operating in accordance with pre-defined conceptualizations of justice. We argue both that current international justice processes focused on crimes committed against the Rohingya are unable to respond to the needs of female victims and that international justice mechanisms in general have been much better at engaging with and responding to international civil society than they have been with victim communities.