Adams, Laura S.

Beyond Gender: State Failure to Protect Domestic Violence Victims as a Basis for Granting Refugee Status

This brief essay addresses the debate over whether victims of domestic violence should be able to claim refugee status. The author notes that the greatest challenge in advancing this type of refugee claim is that domestic violence is private in nature and argues that refugee advocates have failed to clearly articulate the role of the state within domestic violence. The essay examines the particular elements of the refugee definition which are of greatest issue for those seeking refugee status due to domestic violence.

Human Rights, Women and HIV/AIDS

This information sheet from the World Health Organization begins by noting the pervasive lack of respect for women's rights to safe sexuality and links this issue to women's lack of economic security. Other concerns relating to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and women include issues of sexual violence and the lack of education for adolescents on these issues. The publication also contains information regarding human rights issues raised on preventing transmission of the virus from mother to child. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - HIV/AIDS, International]