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Towards an International Convention against Violence against Women
Violence against women is a widespread phenomenon highlighted in various reports of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences. Yet, no single treaty...
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20 Years of VAWA
Twenty years ago, on September 13, 1994, President Clinton signed into law a bill that included the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The Act afforded greater protections to victims, brought the issue...
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Violence against women: a new binding standard for 2015
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) entered into force on 1 August 2014. As we begin 2015, when the...
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Child Marriage in India: Loopholes in the Law
By sheer numbers, child marriage in India dwarfs the rest of the world; India has the highest number of child brides of any country. Although the rate of child marriage is decreasing for children...
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Inheritance Law Reform in Morocco: At the Intersection of Human Rights and...
Last week, the president of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Driss El Yazami, publicly released the Council’s most recent report on gender equality and parity in Morocco. The content and...
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Article 8 of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against...
Article 8 of CEDAW requires state parties to the treaty to “take all appropriate measures to ensure to women, on equal terms with men and without any discrimination, the opportunity to represent their...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking as a Gendered Phenomenon – Part I
This is part 1 of a two-part post on human trafficking as a gendered phenomenon. In this first part we provide a brief contextualisation to the issue and introduce our recently published article...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking as a Gendered Phenomenon: CEDAW and a missing jigsaw piece...
In the first part of this blog, we provided a summary of our article “Human Trafficking as A Gendered Phenomenon: CEDAW in Perspective” in which we argue that the CEDAW Committee is an important actor...
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VP Biden’s Ambitious Agenda for Women
The presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, has released his “Agenda for Women.” It’s a tour de force of dozens of key policy priorities, both domestic and...
View ArticleThe CEDAW Committee’s New General Recommendation on Human Trafficking: The...
Late last year, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued General Recommendation 38 on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration. This was a...
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