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All Roads Lead To Rome: A Jurisprudential Genealogy Of Feminism, Sexual And Gender-Based Violence And International Criminal Law, Jessica M. Zaccagnino
All Roads Lead To Rome: A Jurisprudential Genealogy Of Feminism, Sexual And Gender-Based Violence And International Criminal Law, Jessica M. Zaccagnino
Connecticut Journal of International Law
Sexual and gender-based violence is prevalent in armed conflicts throughout all corners of the world. The elevation—and recognition—of sexual and gender-based violence as violence qua violence is an arduous and continual struggle. Although international humanitarian and human rights law purports to proscribe sexual and gender-based violence, the language of the law often minimizes the gravity of this violence and fails to hold perpetrators accountable. This Article argues that to elevate sexual and gender-based violence crimes in the international humanitarian and criminal law hierarchy, there must be a radical reconceptualization of gender under international law. But, in order to envision the …
The Complexities Of Democracy, Development, And Human Rights In China's Belt And Road Initiative, Diane A. Desierto
The Complexities Of Democracy, Development, And Human Rights In China's Belt And Road Initiative, Diane A. Desierto
Connecticut Journal of International Law
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a dense network of China-funded multi-year infrastructure projects in over 65 countries from the Western Pacific to the Baltic Sea, collectively aiming to establish China's strategic "Maritime Belt" and "Silk Road" connectivity using an estimated range of USD$1 Trillion to USD$8 Trillion—is as unprecedented phenomenon in sovereign project financing and bilateral investment lending, since the United States' grant of USD $800 Billion for the Marshall Plan was for Europe’s post World War II reconstruction. The scale, scope, and terms of BRI projects remain shrouded in relative opacity, with China as of this writing only incrementally …