Women’s Suffrage in Chile
By the time that the Chilean poet and educator, Gabriela Mistral, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ...
Gender
Addressing Gender Violence: The Urgent Need for Introspection by the ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2018. While this torchbearer of ...
Women’s Suffrage in Switzerland
In 2017, a Swiss film about the introduction of women’s suffrage on the Swiss federal level attracted much ...
When The Law is Not Enough: International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM
On February 6, UN International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the international ...
Gender Recognition, Self-Determination and Segregated Space
In July 2017, the Government announced a public consultation on legal gender recognition in the United Kingdom. In ...
Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media
This post analyses Einarsson v Iceland, a defamation case in which a celebrity sued an Instagram user (‘X’) for ...
Rompiendo el silencio y sosteniendo la mirada: Mujeres denunciantes de tortura sexual en Atenco en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos emitirá, en los próximos meses, la sentencia del “Caso Atenco” ...
Breaking the Silence, Holding the Gaze: Women Denounce Sexual Torture in Atenco Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
In the coming months, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will issue its decision on the Atenco case, ...
Levenstein: A Case to End Prescription of All Sexual Offences in South Africa
Widely considered the most progressive constitution in the world, the South African Constitution contains an ...
The View Beyond Brexit: Equality Rights in Northern Ireland After Divorce (with Evelyn Collins)
The EU has played an important role both internationally and domestically in EU member states, in developing and ...
The Supreme Court of India Reads down the Marital Rape Exception: A Partial Victory for Women’s Rights Advocates
In a recent case, Independent Thought v. Union of India and Anr, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India ...
Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa
Many women in Africa are congregated in poorly paid and precarious work (ILO, 2016) and have very high rates of ...
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