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Overlooked and Unprotected : Central American Indigenous Migrant Women in Mexico

This article is relevant to research that aims to understand the legal mechanisms which impact Female migrants and Indigenous female migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America ("NTCA"). The article begins with an overview of the high rate of poverty, violence, and immigration in the NTCA, especially for the people of Guatemala and Honduras.

Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Women’s Rights in Mexico : The Ambiguities of Recognition

This article examines the effects of the ambiguous and limited recognition of Indigenous law in Mexico on Indigenous women’s efforts to attain greater gender justice.

Overlooked and Unprotected : Central American Indigenous Migrant Women in Mexico

Amidst the increase in Indigenous migrants fleeing Central America, the Mexican government has chosen to prioritize border enforcement instead of providing adequate protection to migrants. Most vulnerable are Central American Indigenous women, who face a variety of dangers while migrating including human trafficking, kidnapping, forced marriage of minors, extortion, and rape.

ISIL, the Syrian Conflict, Sexual Violence, and the Way Forward: Syrian Women's Inclusion in the Peace Processes

This article focuses on the prevalence of sexual violence within the Syrian conflict and how these issues should be addressed in the peace process. In particular it criticizes the failure to include women in negotiations that would determine their future, despite international obligations to do so.

Listen to the Women: Human Rights in Conflict Situations - Opening Remarks

This article is a brief restatement of the opening remarks from the symposium “Listen to the Women: Human Rights in Conflict Situations”, presented by Charlotte Bunch.

The Gender Dimension of Transitional Justice Mechanisms

In this article the author explores the development in international law of crimes of gender-based violence, noting both its progress and its continued limitations. Turano focuses on the ability of transitional justice mechanisms, specifically, criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, to adequately redress harms experienced by women during times of conflict. She argues that while much progress has been made in prosecuting gender based crimes at the ICTY and the ICTR, a focus on crimes of sexual violence towards women ignores many other

Considering Nonstate Actors in the New Millenium: Toward Expanded Participation in Norm Generation and Norm Application

This article begins with a personal account of a group of women talking around a kitchen table in Belgrade in 1994. The article first explores the role of such local actors in the development of international norms. Second, the article examines recent developments promoted by globalization that are important in the inquiry into the mutually constitutive relationship among international norms, international structures, and local actors. Third, it looks at the theoretical tools available for furthering this analysis. [Descriptors: Applying Human Rights Law - International, International]

Culture And Human Rights: The Asian Values Debate In Context

This report examines the issue of culture in the context of international human rights law. The author reviews the progression of identity politics and considers how "sometimes culture seems like something to be protected by international human rights law, while other times it is seen as in opposition to it". The essay uses three case studies, namely, women's human rights, the rights of indigenous

The Impact of the Reagan Administration's International Population Policy on Human Rights Relating to Health and the Family

The U.S. Mexico City Policy is an international population policy implemented in developing countries that undercuts the very values it claims to strengthen. The author argues that it also violates accepted and developing norms of international law, including the right to health and developing standards linking family planning and the rights of women. The author notes that it also violates basic principles of non-retrogression in the promotion of economic and social rights and respect for the sovereignty of other nations.

Gender Equality and Religious Freedom: Toward a Framework for Conflict Resolution

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