Gender

An initiative by professors Maryam Jamshidi and Emily Berman.

Two decades after the landmark UN resolution, the rise of authoritarianism and extreme rightist ideologies have generated backlash against gender equality and the idea of involving…

Analysis of the ICRC's updated Commentaries to the Geneva Convention for Prisoners of War (POWs).

A sober assessment of the strengths of the president's invocation of the Westfall Act defense in the E. Jean Carroll case, and lack of such a defense in others.

To reflect a generation of global constitutional developments on sex equality, have a democratic national conversation in Congress.

Questions of timing, rescissions, certification, and the authority of the courts and Congress stall the Equal Rights Amendment.

(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a special Just Security “Racing National Security” symposium edited by editorial board member Matiangai Sirleaf. The goal of…

The president and his officials take many actions diametrically opposed to these plans. But Congress and civil society can keep the pressure on.

In this essay for Just Security, the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and Mexico’s Legal Adviser outline the government’s priorities when it becomes…

(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…

The guidelines respond to troubling past practices that made investigations ineffective, re-traumatizing, unnecessarily duplicative, and a security risk.

It omits a key type of violation and fails to account for the power structures that enable multiple forms of sexual violence and abuse.