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Reclaiming Refugee Rights As Human Rights, Roni Amit
Reclaiming Refugee Rights As Human Rights, Roni Amit
Pace International Law Review
On April 5, 2019, PILR held their triennial symposium titled: Revisiting Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 70. As a reflection of the event, a few panelists composed contribution pieces reflecting on the topic.
Excluding Women, Catherine Dauvergne, Hannah Lindy
Excluding Women, Catherine Dauvergne, Hannah Lindy
All Faculty Publications
This article reviews 16 years of Canadian case law applying the Refugee Convention’s exclusion provisions to women. Despite a quarter of a century of strong scholarly and policy-making work asserting the need for attention to gender in refugee law, this dataset shows that, in questions of exclusion, gendered analysis is almost entirely absent. By contrast, in seeking explanations for the factual basis of exclusion in these cases, gender is almost always an explanatory factor. This stark observation leads us to conclude that significant additional work – both scholarly and policy-focused – is required. The article also considers whether a more …