Gender
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Trump’s “Unalienable Rights” Commission Likely to Promote Anti-Rights Agenda
On Monday, we learned who would be serving on the State Department's new "Commission on Unalienable Rights." The track records of the chair and the other members raise even further…
EXCLUSIVE: Draft Charter of Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda
Just Security has obtained the draft Charter for the Commission. Professor Hamilton writes: If the Commission follows the ideological roots of the "natural law" theory it is grounded…
Is Justice the Antidote to Sexual Violence in Conflict? Why Amal Clooney is Only Half Right
While many survivors of sexual violence do want accountability, it isn’t always their first priority, particularly when boiled down to prosecutions and disconnected from their…
Gutting the Substance of a Security Council Resolution on Sexual Violence
The United States has abandoned any meaningful commitment to victims and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, in the interest of appeasing domestic anti-abortion constituencies.…
Gender-Based Violence and Sanctions: A Potential UN Security Council Framework
Proposals to add a separate category on sexual and gender-based violations (SGBV) to the sanctions regimes for Sudan, Somalia, and Libya in the past six months have revived the…
How the Pentagon Made Transgender Rights Disappear
The Pentagon's new limits on transgender military service amount to a ban that is anything but "gender-blind."
Gendered Security and the Right to Life: Analysis of UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment
UN human rights body goes far in recognizing how gender and women's rights intersect with (national) security issues, but far enough?
Untangling the Issues in the “Transgender in the Military” Litigation
A few weeks ago, the Department of Justice made something of a splash by filing petitions for certiorari “before judgment” in three of the pending cases challenging then-Secretary…
Beyond Killing: The Critical Role of Gender in the Recognition, Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
“When we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye. We can act, carefully and responsibly,…
Misogynist Apartheid — Saudi Arabia’s Original Human Rights Sin
The murderous brutality of the Saudi regime is rightly condemned for the killing and dismembering of courageous dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the merciless Saudi war…
States Are Challenging New Policy That Denies Asylum to Survivors of Domestic Violence
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief on September 28, in support of a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy that denies asylum…
The Social Meaning of Confirming Kavanaugh is Inescapable
The social significance of what it would mean, especially for certain Senators, to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh is now set.