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Gender Recognition, Self-Determination and Segregated Space

Gender Recognition, Self-Determination and Segregated Space

...to access women-only spaces (increasing the risks of assault). In addition, opponents object that self-determination would create a right for trans women, who have no intention to medically transition, to...
Breaking the Silence, Holding the Gaze: Women Denounce Sexual Torture in Atenco Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Breaking the Silence, Holding the Gaze: Women Denounce Sexual Torture in Atenco Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

...insurgent groups, these radical groups, the first thing the little handbook (says) is for women to claim that they were raped.” These statements reveal gender stereotypes related to women’s role...
Affirmative Action and the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

Affirmative Action and the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

...The 5th goal in the list was “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” (Goal 5). Under this broad goal, the resolution also proposes specific targets, including “…full...
Working Together: Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

Working Together: Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

...the SDG agenda and particularly gender equality and women’s empowerment. It will focus on four inter-related themes: Women and Work Reproductive Health Violence Against Women International and Domestic Remedial Mechanisms...
Levenstein: A Case to End Prescription of All Sexual Offences in South Africa

Levenstein: A Case to End Prescription of All Sexual Offences in South Africa

...important for the protection of women’s rights. If the Court declares the section unconstitutional, victims of sexual abuse would be better protected and women would be granted the justice they...
The Supreme Court of India Reads down the Marital Rape Exception: A Partial Victory for Women’s Rights Advocates

The Supreme Court of India Reads down the Marital Rape Exception: A Partial Victory for Women’s Rights Advocates

...just from India’s Constitution but also its’ international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Crucially, he observed “…she cannot be treated as...
Video Recording Now Available: ‘Production, Reproduction and Empowerment: The Future of Women in Africa’

Video Recording Now Available: ‘Production, Reproduction and Empowerment: The Future of Women in Africa’

...the full political and social citizenship of women, while supporting their care-giving roles. This lecture focused on young women (aged 15-24), who are at the cusp of reproduction and production....
Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa

Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa

...working conditions. Across a diverse continent, empowering women and achieving decent work is a vital element in developing dynamic economies that include the full political and social citizenship of women,...
Oxford Martin Seminar: Production, Reproduction and Empowerment: The Future of Women in Africa (Sandra Fredman & Jo Boyden)

Oxford Martin Seminar: Production, Reproduction and Empowerment: The Future of Women in Africa (Sandra Fredman & Jo Boyden)

...Women and girls still perform the bulk of unpaid domestic and care work, severely limiting their access to work with fair working conditions. Across a diverse continent, empowering women and...
My Body, My Life

My Body, My Life

...on women’s experiences of abortion, the exhibition shows how easily an unplanned pregnancy can become a part of any woman’s life, how different women have made their decision about having...
CJEU in Kalliri: Solidifying Indirect Sex Discrimination

CJEU in Kalliri: Solidifying Indirect Sex Discrimination

...‘less disadvantageous to women.’ Two things are notable. First, the Court had previously found for direct sex discrimination where women were considered unsuitable for handling firearms in the police services...
Beyond Human Rights: Rethinking Gender Equality in Law and Politics

Beyond Human Rights: Rethinking Gender Equality in Law and Politics

...Protocols to CEDAW and ICESCR to mobilise for change and to address violations of women’s rights? What successful experiences give us hope for action? Women and work: Crossing the boundaries....

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