Featured Articles and Reports
Articles
Emma Adams, An Examination of Race in Reproductive Oppression: Why Intersectional Abortion Stigma Disruption is Necessary to Achieve Reproductive Justice in 2024 and Beyond , 36 Hastings Women's L.J. 3 (2025). Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hwlj/vol36/iss1/3
Armand Arabian, The Sexual Assault Counselor-Victim Privilege: Jurisdictional Delay into an Unclaimed Sanctuary , 37 Pepp. L. Rev. Iss. 5 (2009). Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/plr/vol37/iss5/6
Anita Bernstein & Hans Dieter Seibel, Reparations, Microfinance, and Gender: A Plan, with Strategies for Implementation , 44 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Bernstein-Seibel-final-2.pdf
Johanna E. Bond, Gender, Discourse, and Customary Law in Africa , 83 S. CAL. L. REV. 509-574 (2010). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/102/
Cynthia Grant Bowman & Elizabeth Brundige, Child Sex Abuse Within the Family in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Change in Current Legal and Mental Health Responses , 47 CORNELL INT’L L.J. 233 (2014). Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cilj/vol47/iss2/1/
Alexandra Brodsky, Discrimination on the Basis of Consensual Sex , 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2024). Available at: https://nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-99-number-5/discrimination-on-the-basis-of-consensual-sex/
Naomi Cahn et al, Returning Home: Women in Post-Conflict Societies , 39 U. Balt. L. Rev. 339 (2010). Available at: https://law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/Cahn_After_First_EIC_Edit%5B1%5D1.pdf
Janie A. Chuang, Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy , 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1655 (2010). Available at: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol158/iss6/4
Lesley Connolly, Justice and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Situations: An Argument for Including Gender Analysis in a New Post-Conflict Model , 6 ACCORD Occasional Paper Vol. 6, No. 1 (2012). Available at: https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC127680
D Dangaran & hlr, Bending Gender: Disability Justice, Abolitionist Queer Theory, and ADA Claims for Gender Dysphoria , 137 Harv. L. Rev. F. 237 (2024). Available at: https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-137/bending-gender-disability-justice-abolitionist-queer-theory-and-ada-claims-for-gender-dysphoria/
Katherine Fobear & Erin Baines, Pushing the Conversation Forward: The Intersections of Sexuality and Gender Identity in Transitional Justice , 24 Int’l J. Hum. Rts. 1673 (2020). Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2019.1673980
Mitu Gulati et al., Judging Women , 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 504-532 (2011). Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2271/
Margaux J. Hall, Using International Law to Promote Millennium Health Targets: A Role for the CEDAW Optional Protocol in Reducing Maternal Mortality , 28 Wis. Int'l L.J. 74-107 (2010). Available at: https://api.law.wisc.edu/repository-pdf/uwlaw-library-repository-omekav3/original/effe35a6243bfb7989704a65fba0d26f957ab115.pdf
Sonia K. Katyal & Jessica Y. Jung, The Gender Panopticon: AI, Gender, and Design Justice , 68 UCLA L. Rev. 692 (2021). Available at: https://www.uclalawreview.org/the-gender-panopticon-ai-gender-and-design-justice/
Virginia M. Kendall, Greasing the Palm: An Argument for an Increased Focus on Public Corruption in the Fight Against International Human Trafficking , 44 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Kendall-final.pdf
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law Through the Lens of the Right to Remedy , 24 Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (2024). Available at: https://academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/24/2/ngae012/7664527
Caroline Bettinger-López, Human Rights at Home: Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation , 42 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 581 (2008). Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/598/
Rashida Manjoo & Calleigh McRaith, Gender-Based Violence and Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas , 44 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Manjoo-McRaith-final.pdf
Mohamed Y. Mattar, Access to International Criminal Justice for Victims of Violence Against Women Under International Family Law , 23 EMORY INT'L L. REV. 141 (2009). Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Mattar-2/publication/237779844_ACCESS_TO_INTERNATIONAL_CRIMINAL_JUSTICE_FOR_VICTIMS_OF_VIOLENCE_AGAINST_WOMEN_UNDER_INTERNATIONAL_FAMILY_LAW/links/54dd041d0cf28a3d93f88ae5/ACCESS-TO-INTERNATIONAL-CRIMINAL-JUSTICE-FOR-VICTIMS-OF-VIOLENCE-AGAINST-WOMEN-UNDER-INTERNATIONAL-FAMILY-LAW.pdf
Mohamed Y. Mattar, Interpreting Judicial Interpretations of the Criminal Statutes of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Ten Years Later , American University Journal of Gender Social Policy and Law 19, no. 4 (2011): 1247-1304. Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1545&context=jgspl
Martha T. McClusky, Gender, Violence, and the Rule of Law: Remembering Isabel Marcus , 71 Buff. L. Rev. 15 (2023). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview/vol71/iss1/3
Torrey McConnell, The War on Women: Collateral Consequences of Female Incarceration , Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 21 no. 2 (2017). Available at: https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/24232-212article7mcconnellpdf
Denisse Córdova Montes, Tamar Ezer, Reem Ali, Kayla Bokzam, Renu Sara Nargund, Megan Norris, and Maxwell Zoberman, Gender Justice And Human Rights Symposium: Holistic Approaches To Gender Violence , 30 U. MIA Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 217 (2022). Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umiclr/vol30/iss1/8
Muna Ndulo, The United Nations Responses to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by Peacekeepers during Peacekeeping Missions , 27 Berkeley Journal of International Law (2009). Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/59/
Douglas NeJaime & Courtney Joslin, Multiparenthood , 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2024). Available at: https://nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-99-number-4/multiparenthood/
Aoife M. O’Connor, et al., Transcending the Gender Binary Under International Law, Health & Hum. Rts. J. (2022). Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/transcending-the-gender-binary-under-international-law-advancing-healthrelated-human-rights-for-trans-populations/0E42156B773D0665091F19CCA0F06AF5
Valerie Oosterveld, The Gender Jurisprudence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Progress in the Revolutionary United Front Judgments , Western Law Publications. 105. (2011). Originally published in 44 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/lawpub/105
Martina Pomeroy, Left Out in the Cold: Trafficking Victims, Gender, and Misinterpretation of the Refugee Convention's "Nexus" Requirement , 16 Mich. J. Gender & L. 453 (2010). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol16/iss2/3
Natalie E. Serra, Queering International Human Rights: LGBT Access to Domestic Violence Remedies , 21 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 297 (2013). Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1611&context=jgspl
Meredith R. Severtson, Let's Talk About Gender: Nonbinary Title VII Plaintiffs Post-Bostock , 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 1507 (2021). Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol74/iss5/6
Zachary Starks-Taylor & Jamie Miller, Politicians Live on Camera: Revenge Porn, Elections, and the First Amendment , 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2024). Available at: https://nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-99-number-1/
Sandra Day O'Connor & Kim K. Azzarelli, Sustainable Development, Rule of Law, and the Impact of Women Judges , 44 CORNELL INT’L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://initiatives.virtuefoundation.org/media/pdfs/Sustainable-Development-Impact-of-Women-Judges.pdf
Patricia Viseur Sellers, Wartime Female Slavery: Enslavement? 44 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2011). Available at: https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Sellers-final-version.pdf
Deborah M. Weissman, Gender Violence as a Penalty of Poverty , 54 U. MIA Inter-Am. L. Rev. 39 (2023) Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umialr/vol54/iss1/4
Deborah M. Weissman, Gender Violence, the Carceral State, and the Politics of Solidarity, 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2 (2021) Available at: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk15026/files/media/documents/55-2_Weissman.pdf
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Reports
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By: Baek, Chung-Ah; Chopra, Deepta; Edström, Jerker; Lewin, Tessa; Metcalfe, Steve; Mushtaq, Samreen; et al, (2024). This report highlights the global resurgence of challenges to women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, documenting instances where progress toward gender equality is being undermined.
Global Gender Gap Report , (2024).
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Report published by the World Economic Forum presenting the scope of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress by providing benchmarks of national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria.
National Partnership for Women & Families, How a Lack of LGBTQI+ Data Harms Gender Justice , (2024).
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This report discusses the detrimental effects of insufficient data on LGBTQI+ populations, emphasizing the necessity for comprehensive information to address inequities and advance gender justice.
UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons , (2024)
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report provides an analysis of human trafficking, victim demographics and current global responses.
UN Security Council Reports. UN Documents for Women, Peace and Security: Secretary-General's Reports , (2024).
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These reports examine the heightened levels of gender-based violence against women and girls during conflicts, including arbitrary killings, torture, sexual violence, and forced marriage.
UN Women, Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner and Family Member Femicides , (2024).
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A UNODC and UN Women updated report on global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls.
U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report , (2024).
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The U.S. Department of State annual Trafficking in Persons Report covers the status of efforts against human trafficking in countries around the world, including the United States, and highlights key trends in human trafficking.
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This report reviews a study of the strategies used by local actors to operationalize reparations for victims of human rights violations, while highlighting the synergies between these efforts and sustainable development. This is based on the fieldwork of ICTJ and its partners in four areas: Colombia, The Gambia, Tunisia, and Uganda. The report presents findings from the comparative study and offers practical guidance and policy recommendations on how to advance reparations and sustainable development.
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Focusing on New York State's Survivors Justice Act, this report examines sentencing reforms for survivors of domestic violence who have been criminalized for actions related to their abuse.
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This report features quantitative and qualitative indicators of crimes committed in Ukraine in 2022 on the grounds of homophobia and transphobia taking into account the ongoing war.
UN Women, LGBTIQ+ Equality and Rights: Internal Resource Guide , (2022).
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This internal resource guide provides UN Women with strategies to integrate diverse LGBTIQ+ perspectives across its global gender equality initiatives.
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This 2021 report from JurFem (Report on the results of judicial practice “On the application of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) contains analyzes courts’ application of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) in domestic violence cases delivered before the Convention’s ratification by Ukraine on June 20, 2022.
The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crises of Gender-Based Violence and Covid-19 , (2021).
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This Oxfam report highlights the exacerbation of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This report by the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner analyzes the barriers to healthcare for survivors of sexual violence in South Sudan's conflict and provides recommendations for improving access.
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This resource outlines how international human rights law applies to sexual orientation and gender identity, and advocates for legal protections.
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This report by the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM.ngo) discusses the status and treatment of LGBTQ people in Georgia, specifically gay men, other men who have sex with men (MSM), and trans people. It explains existing legal protections for LGBTQ people, societal attitudes, human rights violations, and recommendations for future progress. (PDF is in English. The External Link offers Russian, English, and Estonian.)
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A framework strategic document for inclusion of the principle of gender equality in all areas of social life, providing guidelines for development of operational plans of institutions at all levels of government in Bosnia.
Gender Report Card on the ICC , (2018).
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This report is an assessment of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) handling of gender justice issues, including prosecutions, policies, and the institutional commitment to gender equity.
Violence Against Women in Elections in Zimbabwe: An IFES Assessment , (2018).
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A report analyzing the prevalence and impact of violence against women in Zimbabwe's electoral process, with recommendations for addressing these challenges.
CEDAW and Muslim Family Laws , (2017).
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Report published by MUSAWAH for Equality in the Family on the CEDAW reporting process and States' parties justifications for their failure to implement CEDAW with regard to family law and practices that discriminate against Muslim women.
Accessing justice for sexual and gender-based violence crimes in Liberia’s hybrid system , (2016).
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A study of Liberia's legal system and its effectiveness in providing justice for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
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This toolkit provides guidance on ensuring that gender equality is enshrined in domestic law and offers strategies for enacting legislation that prohibits discrimination in all aspects of women’s lives.
"They are Destroying Our Futures" Sexual Violence Against Girls in Zambia's Schools , (2012).
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A report by the former Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, Women and Law in Southern Africa-Zambia, and the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic examining the problem of sexual violence against girls in school in Zambia.
African Statistical Journal: A Special Issue on Gender , (2011).
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A special journal issue of the African Development Bank focused on gender statistics.
Aftershocks: Women speak out against sexual violence in Haiti's camps , (2011).
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A report by Amnesty International highlighting the protection needs of women and girls in camps in Haiti after the earthquake.
Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India , (2011).
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A Report by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, the Committee on International Human Rights of the New York City Bar Association, the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic, and the Virtue Foundation.
Costing and Financing 1325 , (2011).
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A Global Network of Women Peacebuilders report on the Resources Needed to Implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 at the National Level as well as the Gains, Gaps and Glitches on Financing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice , (2010).
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A Report by UNIFEM, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, on best practices and emerging elements for a more effective response by peacekeepers to women's security concerns in conflict situations.
Afraid and Forgotten: Lawlessness, Rape, and Impunity in Western Côte d'Ivoire , (2010).
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A Human Rights Watch report documenting the often brutal physical and sexual violence in the western administrative regions of Moyen Cavally and Dix-Huit Montagnes in the Cote d'Ivoire.
Global Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Women: a Human Rights Perspective , (2010).
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A report by Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR) on a South Asian Regional workshop hosted by PWESCR, UNWomen and Heinrich Boll Foundation, presenting a gendered view of human rights in South Asia.
“I Am Not Dead, But I Am Not Living" Barriers to Fistula Prevention and Treatment in Kenya, (2010).
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A Human Rights Watch report describing the situation of women with fistula in Kenya, including the increased risk of stigma and violence and the impact of a health system that fails to properly address the problem of fistula.
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A Report by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative with support from Oxfam America.
After the guns fall silent: Sexual and gender-based violence in Timor-Leste , (2009).
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A report by Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment, examining the scale and magnitude of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) directed against women and girls in Timor-Leste.
An Agenda For Change: Implementing the Platform of Action against Human Trafficking , (2009).
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Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe's Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Persons present their 2009 report.
Bottom of the Ladder: Exploitation and Abuse of Girl Domestic Workers in Guinea , (2007).
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A Human Rights Watch report documenting how girls as young as 8 years old work up to 18 hours a day as domestic workers in Guinea, frequently without pay, and are often insulted, beaten and raped by their employers.
Burnt Not Defeated , (2007).
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A report by the Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women (CSAAAW) on acid attacks in Karnataka, India.
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