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📢 Call for Essays!
Submit to the 2027 Human Rights Essay Award by Feb. 3, 2027.
Theme: "Democracy, Human Rights and Participation"
🏆 Full tuition scholarship to the 2027 Program of Advanced Studies + publication consideration
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Alshaymaa Alharbi analyzes 148 treaty-based disputes filed against MENA states between 2000 and 2025, finding uneven progress in women's representation and what that gap costs the parties, as well as proposing practical solutions towards gender parity.
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Samira Allioui traces how interpretation of the right to privacy and family life is influenced by, and reinforced, gender stereotypes when a person giving birth cannot make their own informed decisions regarding childbirth.
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Fahimeh Heydari Torkabad uses a decolonial lens to deconstruct sovereign equality, state immunity and their implications for victims of gender-based violence: whither jus cogens?
Whose Immunity? Comfort Women and the Colonial Ghost in Sovereign Equality
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Leah Milova takes a look at controversial legal positioning by both UK and US governments related to Palestine Action, a UK-based direct action group, ahead of the UK Supreme Court hearing in November 2026
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On the blog, Fariha Easar takes stock of accountability efforts five years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. What are avenues for survivors of gender apartheid and gender persecution to seek justice?
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On the blog, Udit Jain & Shubhaksh Dvivedi tackle legal gaps that make accountability for non-consensual dissemination of intimate images more challenging, and underscore the importance of ratifying the UN Convention Against Cybercrime.
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Mohammed Abbas and Rana Sabah analyze a 2025 ECHR judgment on the practice of digital screenings by Russia in Ukraine and its gender implications:
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Navya Garg writes about how India is balancing economic and environmental interests in conflicting treaties. Upholding Common but Differentiated Responsibilities is essential also for addressing gender impacts of economic and environmental stressors.
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How can int’l justice adapt to hybrid warfare & democratic backsliding? Join #NurembergForum2026, 7–9 Oct 2026 @Courtroom600. Explore UN Charter & Nuremberg Principles w/ experts.
Free: nurembergacademy.org/public-…
#InternationalCriminalLaw #PeaceAndSecurity
On the blog today, Fahimeh Heydari Torkabad applies the public/private blind spot of international law to FIFA's World Cup.
Pink boots are highly visible in a context where gender equality is easily swept under the rug.
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Today on @IntLawGrrls, Obongodu Paul Unanam assesses UNCAC's failure to require whistleblower protection and its gendered impact in Nigeria. Who is most harmed by corruption and what can int'l law do to address this gap?
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Co-authors Khadija Attia, Osikenoya Usman-Aliu, Lauren E. Bartlett, & Sarah Dávila tackle the United States government's refusal to engage in the UPR process-- and its implications for gender equality, women’s rights and human rights of LGBTQI+ persons.
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Samira Allioui analyzes recent ECtHR judgment X v. Georgia, as it advances victims' right to a speedy and thorough investigation, and as it imposes evidentiary hurdles in establishing how sex discrimination plays a key role in investigative failures--
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In honor of #IDAHOBIT today, Savannah Eklund offers an analysis of discrimination against LGBTQI+ people following the 2023 Russian Supreme Court decision. Semiotics plays a critical role in understanding an authoritarian legal system
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Today, Yeva Yevtikhova shares her findings from a dataset of 1,344 U.S.-registered startups and interviews with female founders. She calls for explicit recognition that systematic exclusion from capital allocation constitutes gender discrimination.
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Blog author Luíza Veado takes us behind the scenes of CSW70, where procedural tools are increasingly used to manage political fragmentation. She argues that the central challenge is not what can be agreed, but how, in a fragmented multilateral landscape.
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On the blog, Lucie Canal analyzes prosecutions of former ISIS members in European jurisdictions. Current gender-blind approaches contribute to distorting meaningful accountability by erasing men’s central role in ISIS’s murderous and misogynistic system.
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Blog author Rashmi Raman shares personal reflections on the anniversary of the start of the Rwandan Genocide-- and what the intervening decades have taught us about the strength of legal obligations today.
7 April without illusions:
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On the blog, Oleksandra Miroshnychenko addresses an often overlooked aspect of child rights and reproductive justice: forced motherhood, and its consequences for rights access.
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