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Dobbs and Dignity

Dobbs and Dignity

...Women’s Health Organization, overruling nearly fifty years of legal precedent and dealing a serious blow to women’s human dignity. The principle of human dignity lies at the heart of human...
The End of Roe and Casey: A Human Rights Perspective

The End of Roe and Casey: A Human Rights Perspective

...Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—erased a half-century of U.S. American women’s reproductive freedom. This blog series explores how Dobbs may impact the human rights of women, minorities, LGBTQIA+ individuals,...
Disrupting Cultural Norms Through Occupational Health and Safety:  A Convention 190 Perspective

Disrupting Cultural Norms Through Occupational Health and Safety: A Convention 190 Perspective

...when the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) came into force, by 1990 General Recommendation 19, defined GBV as a violation of...
“That’s the Key Question: Institutional Responsibility for Inequality (Episode 4)

“That’s the Key Question: Institutional Responsibility for Inequality (Episode 4)

...for economic inequalities within the political realm, that the right to equality for women in poverty becomes an illusion, as they are repeatedly told that the inequalities they experience are...
365 Days to Access Justice: Nepal’s Precarious Rape Law Provision

365 Days to Access Justice: Nepal’s Precarious Rape Law Provision

Image Description: A poster which says ‘End Violence Against Women’ in block letters. The statute of limitation to file a complaint, in the case of rape in Nepal, forms part...
“…Patriarchal Mentality”: The Functioning of Equality Law in Crisis (Episode 2)

“…Patriarchal Mentality”: The Functioning of Equality Law in Crisis (Episode 2)

...had a lot of civil society mobilisation. Women specifically, were— had a really strong mobilisation. They had an interesting story because they were called the “Lipstick Lobby”, which was a...
Reproductive rights in Chile’s new constitution: lessons from defective contraceptive litigation

Reproductive rights in Chile’s new constitution: lessons from defective contraceptive litigation

Image Description: Six women holding a banner which says ‘For the Autonomy and Human Rights of Women’ in Spanish. In the third quarter of 2020, Miles Chile identified more than...
“I Can Hear Another Ambulance”: The Rise of Exponential Inequalities During COVID-19 (Episode 1)

“I Can Hear Another Ambulance”: The Rise of Exponential Inequalities During COVID-19 (Episode 1)

...so it impacts Muslim women in particular, but it’s indirect because Muslim women are not targeted directly, but it’s indirect in nature. Christy Callaway-Gale (5:42) And often discrimination isn’t just...
Nuclear Threats Prevent South Korea from Ratifying the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention

Nuclear Threats Prevent South Korea from Ratifying the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention

...ascribes to women stereotyped roles based on the assumption that they need to be protected, mandatory service for women begs the question of whether the army is sufficiently adapted to...
Peru: School Curricula as New Sites of LGBTQ+ Liberation

Peru: School Curricula as New Sites of LGBTQ+ Liberation

...affect people’s lives, especially women; and, (iii) that people build their sexual and gender identities through “continuous interactions between individuals.” A judicial challenge was brought by a group of parents...
UK Government Bans Hymenoplasty

UK Government Bans Hymenoplasty

Image description: A poster reading ‘My body, my rights’. With the rising concern of young girls and women being subjected to virginity testing and hymen reconstruction surgery, the British government...
Unequal Protection for LGBT+ Victims of Domestic Abuse

Unequal Protection for LGBT+ Victims of Domestic Abuse

...14 ECHR, the prohibition on discrimination, because the violence inflicted was gender-based within a climate of passivity and impunity for violence against women. The failure to protect women from violence...

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