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Full-Text Articles in International Humanitarian Law

The Right To No: The Crime Of Marital Rape, Women's Human Rights, And International Law, Melanie Randall, Vasanthi Venkatesh Jan 2015

The Right To No: The Crime Of Marital Rape, Women's Human Rights, And International Law, Melanie Randall, Vasanthi Venkatesh

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

More than half of the world’s countries do not explicitly criminalize sexual assault in marriage. While sexual assault in general is criminalized in these countries, sexual assault perpetrated by a spouse is entirely legal. The human rights violations inhere in acts of violence against women are now well recognized. Yet somehow marital rape is a particular form of gendered violence that has escaped both criminal law sanctions and human rights approbation in a great number of the world’s nations.

This silence in the law creates legal impunity for men who sexually assault or rape the women who are their wives …


Conjoining International Human Rights Law With Enterprise Liability For Accidents, Anita Bernstein Apr 2001

Conjoining International Human Rights Law With Enterprise Liability For Accidents, Anita Bernstein

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The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50 And The Challenge Of Global Markets: Themes And Variations, Samuel K. Murumba Jan 1999

The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50 And The Challenge Of Global Markets: Themes And Variations, Samuel K. Murumba

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