On January 31, 2013, the War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) co-sponsored a panel discussion at the Washington College of Law with the American Red Cross as well as the American Society for International Law's Women in International Law Interest Group entitled "Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Post Arab Spring: Syria's Challenges to Protection and Accountability."

Moderated by WCRO's Director, Susana SáCouto, the panel included: Rafif Jouejati, English Spokesperson for the Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) and Director of the Foundation to Restore Equality and Education in Syria (FREE-Syria), a nongovernmental organization managing short-term relief efforts and long-term capacity building in Syria; Blake Peterson, Special Advisor at the US Department of State's Office of Global Criminal Justice, which monitors atrocities committed in conflicts and is charged with advising the Secretary of State on effective responses to such atrocities; and Laila Alodaat, a Syrian human rights lawyer and board member of the Syrian Justice and Accountability Center, a multi-lateral project dedicated to providing legal and technical assistance to those documenting human rights violations in Syria.

The ICTY has produced a 40-minute documentary on the adjudication of gender and sexual-based violence available for viewing on their website.

According to the ICTY Press Office Zdravko Tolimir, former Assistant Commander and Chief for Intelligence and Security of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), was sentenced on December 12, 2012, to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 1995 after the fall of the enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa, Bosnia and Herzegovina.