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Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Law and Gender
Human Rights In Transition-- Freedom From Fear, Dorothea Beane
Human Rights In Transition-- Freedom From Fear, Dorothea Beane
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Orientalism Revisited In Asylum And Refugee Claims, Susan M. Akram
Orientalism Revisited In Asylum And Refugee Claims, Susan M. Akram
Faculty Scholarship
This article examines the stereotyping of Islam both by advocates and academics in refugee rights advocacy. The article looks at a particular aspect of this stereotyping, which can be seen as ‘neo-Orientalism’ occurring in the asylum and refugee context, particularly affecting women, and the damage that it does to refugee rights both in and outside the Arab and Muslim world. The article points out the dangers of neo-orientalism in framing refugee law issues, and asks for a more thoughtful and analytical approach by Western refugee advocates and academics on the panoply of Muslim attitudes and Islamic thought affecting applicants for …
Confronting Gender-Based Violence With International Instruments: Is A Solution To The Pandemic Within Reach?, Jennifer L. Ulrich
Confronting Gender-Based Violence With International Instruments: Is A Solution To The Pandemic Within Reach?, Jennifer L. Ulrich
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Women In Nepal: Human Rights In Theory, Human Rights In Practice, Barbara Cochrane Alexander
Women In Nepal: Human Rights In Theory, Human Rights In Practice, Barbara Cochrane Alexander
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Gender Politics In Global Governance, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Gender Politics In Global Governance, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
Prof. Hernández-Truyol reviews the book Gender Politics in Global Governance from editors Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prügl. Given the emergence of multilateral institutions in this century, the mobilization of women against "male supremacy" has taken an internationalist turn; it seeks to shape "the agendas of international organizations and the normative practices of global governance." In an effort to understand and analyze this movement and its impact, the editors have compiled a volume drawing new research together exploring gender politics in global governance that is also "attentive to historical and contemporary modes of women's organizing from the local to the …