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Enhancing Women’s Rights and Capabilities: An Intersectional Approach to Gender-Based Violence Prevention
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-01)Drawing on post-colonial feminist theory, this thesis provides a critical assessment of United Nations (UN) gender-based violence theory and practice. Chapter One provides epistemic critiques of UN agencies’ current ... -
False Dichotomies of Transitional Justice: Gender, Conflict and Combatants in Colombia
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-02)In Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict, between one-fourth to one-third of combatants are women. This paper addresses the problem of reintegrating female combatants in Colombia’s violent conflict into civil society after ... -
Continuing Uncertainties: Forced Marriage as a Crime Against Humanity
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-03)On 22 February 2008, the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) delivered its judgment in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) case. This decision stands out as unique for setting significant ... -
Wearing Out Arizona
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-04)In “Wearing Out Arizona,” Sandra Soto describes and analyzes what her colleague K. Tsianina Lomawaima has aptly coined Arizona’s “regressive suite of legislation.” Seeking to further marginalize the growing Latino community ... -
Thinking Past Rights: Towards Feminist Theories of Reparations
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-05)The notion of reparations encompasses debates about the relationship between individual and society, the nature of political community, the meaning of justice, and the impact of rights in social change. In international ... -
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011): Libya in the Dock
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2011-06)This paper examines Libya’s most recent (and ongoing) uprising—following the largely peaceful popular overthrows of the repressive governments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt (and complemented by the more violent and still ... -
Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-01)This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty reduction discourse. It argues that the value of LEP, as envisaged by its architect, Stephen Golub, ... -
From Structural to Symbolic Dimensions of State Autonomy: Brazil’s AIDS Treatment Program and Global Power Dynamics
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-02)Theories of globalization debate the current role of the state in the contemporary world, specifically questioning how much autonomy or policy space the state has to enact policies considered to be in a country’s interest. ... -
‘The People Follow the Mullah, and the Mullah Follows the People’: Politics of Aid and Gender in Afghanistan post-2001
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-03)This article is based on two months of fieldwork conducted in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2010. It is a feminist reflection on the politics of aid, gender, and religion within the context of civil society organizations’ efforts ... -
Archiving Memory after Mass Atrocities
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-04)Archiving and disseminating records of past atrocities is crucial in societies emerging from periods of conflict or repressive rule. It advances victims’ “right to the truth” and promotes broader social goals of accountability ... -
‘Self-critique, (Anti)politics and Criminalization: Reflections on the History and Trajectory of the Human Rights Movement
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-05)Today’s human rights movement places the fight against impunity at its center. Such a focus is the culmination of a governance project in which the movement has been engaged for close to two decades that puts an enormous ... -
International Law and the Disaggregated Democratic State: Two Case Studies on Women’s Human Rights and the United States
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-06)The two United States case studies in this paper demonstrate that whether or not a state is party to a particular treaty, in a disaggregated democratic state both the central government and different parts of the state ... -
Translating Rights into Agency: Advocacy, Aid and the Domestic Workers Convention
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2013-01)In June 2011, the International Labor Conference adopted the Domestic Workers Convention (the Convention), the first international labor standard to set out legal obligations that specifically protect and improve the working ... -
Constitutionalism and the Foundations of the Security State
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2014-01)Scholars often argue that the culture of American constitutionalism provides an important constraint on aggressive national security practices. This article challenges the conventional account by highlighting instead how ... -
Human Security and Women’s Human Rights: Reinforcing Protection in the Context of Violence Against Women
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2014-02)Considering the human security approach to critical risks and vulnerabilities, this paper explores violence against women as one of the most pervasive and widespread threats worldwide. While there is a general understanding ...
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