Conservative mobilization and adolescent pregnancy in Latin America
by Camila Gianella, Marta R. de Assis Machado and Angélica Peñas Defago On September 27, 2017, the Brazilian Supreme Court – in a 6 to 5 judgment – decided that public schools can have “confessional”...
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...
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Calling it what it is: It is time to define “sexual violence”
From 5-12 December 2018, International Criminal Court (ICC) member states are convening at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague for the 17th annual session of the Assembly of State Parties...
View ArticleColombia’s Constitutional Court issues landmark decision recognising victims...
A month ago, on 11 December 2019, the Colombian Constitutional Court issued an important decision recognising that women and girls who suffered forced contraception and forced abortion by their own...
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Migrant Worker Women Advancing Gender Equity through the USMCA
Men only, 18–35 years old. In 2021, seeing a job posting with those words is startling. Shocking even. But more than a year into a world-changing pandemic that has pushed millions of women out of...
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A.M. & Ors. v Russia: Severing Contact Rights between Transgender Parents and...
Russia’s hetero-normative view of “family” and “traditional values” is the basis of its anti-LGBTQ+ policies. It infamously classified being transgender as a “medical impediment” and banned same-sex...
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Question for the UN Human Rights Council: So, should only men apply?
At its session concluded earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Council established two new country rapporteurships, one on Afghanistan, and one on Burundi. The call for applicants has now been...
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ECtHR’s Lost Opportunities in its Transformative Rulings: Queer...
European Court of Human Rights © Christian Lemâle Previous year the European Court of Human Rights [‘the Court’ or ‘ECtHR’] delivered some significant rulings strengthening ECtHR’s jurisprudence on...
View ArticleUN Special Rapporteurship on Afghanistan
On Friday 1 April, the UN Human Rights Council relinquished an opportunity to put talk into action and send an important message to the Taliban by appointing what would have been the first woman UN...
View ArticleFeminist methods in international law 
Feminist methods in international law understood– A path to transformation: Asking “The Woman Question” in International Law / Cochav Elkayam-Levy Methods matter and the discussion over feminist...
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