Women in Prison: The Particular Importance of Contact With the Outside World
“I felt isolated from the entire world. If I’d stayed any longer I’d have started eating the window bars.” – Inmate, Jordan Contact with the world outside of prison is...
Gender
'GamerGate' and Gendered Hate Speech
What is ‘GamerGate’? Some say it is a movement demanding higher ethics in journalism, but this post will argue that it is yet another instance of sexism and hate speech...
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
There is a growing international focus on social protection in the developing world while at the same time, countries in the developed world are cutting back on social security in...
The UK’s Widening Gender Pay Gap – What Must be Done
The Geneva based World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Equality Index 2014 has ranked the United Kingdom) 26th out of 142 countries. Last year the WEF ranked the UK 18th, and...
National Pro Bono Week – Interning for Gender Equality: UN Women
The 13th annual National Pro Bono Week (NPBW), sponsored by the Law Society, the Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx), will take place between 3 –...
UK Efforts to Criminalize Revenge Porn: Not a Scandal, but a Sex Crime
International headlines were made in August when hackers stole from private devices and online accounts naked images of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Kate Upton and published them...
Menopausal Women Fear Discrimination in the Workplace
According to new research, women of menopausal age fear age-based discrimination in the workplace and face a total lack of menopause-specific support from employers. Interdisciplinary research resulting from a collaboration...
Improving the Law for Pregnant Women and Working Parents
Earlier this year I wrote about the preliminary data that the Australian Human Rights Commission (“AHRC”) had published which showed the high levels of workplace discrimination encountered by women who...
Recognising Maternity Leave as a Human Rights Obligation
Paid maternity leave is routinely argued as necessary to achieve gender equality in the workplace. Article 11(2)(b) of CEDAW requires States “to introduce maternity leave with pay or comparable social...
Searching for the "T" in LGBT Advocacy
On August 30, 2014, the prominent UK lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) rights group, Stonewall, held a workshop with representatives from Britain’s transgender community to consider whether that organization could,...
Histórica Decisión de CEDAW en un Caso de Violencia de Género
En su reciente decisión sobre el caso de Ángela González, una mujer española superviviente de la violencia de género, quien durante años luchó por protegerse a sí misma y a...
CEDAW Issues a Historic Ruling in a Gender Violence Case
In its recent ruling on the case of Ángela González, a Spanish gender violence survivor who fought for years to protect herself and her daughter Andrea, the CEDAW Committee found...
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