Crooms, Lisa A.

Using a Multi-Tiered Analysis to Reconceptualize Gender-Based Violence against Women as a Matter of International Human Rights

This article explores the limits of the violence against women paradigm. Part I examines the phenomenon of women abusing their children, and points out how this phenomenon challenges the prevalent paradigm of violent men, violated women and patriarchy. Part II analyses the purposes of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and highlights, and argues that there are serious problems with DEVAW's underlying gender-based view of violence against women.

'To Establish My Legitimate Name Inside the Consciousness of Strangers': Critical Race Praxis, Progressive Women-of-Colour Theorizing, and Human Rights

In this article, the author uses Eric Yamamoto's critical race praxis (critical race theory in practice) as a starting point. Yamamoto advocates the need to use practical experience within antiracism movements to constantly adapt one's theoretical approaches. In part one, the author provides a brief outline of human rights law, the United States human rights movement, and the global discourse of race.

Indivisible Rights and Intersectional Identities or, "What Do Women's Rights Have to Do With the Race Convention?"

This article argues that the human rights of women of colour are neither adequately protected nor fully recognized under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), as ratified by the United States. This result is largely attributable to both the conceptualization of race in terms that assume maleness represents a point of gender neutrality and the centrality of principles of formal equality to anti-discrimination law.

Breaking the Cycle: Ensuring Equitable Access to HIV Treatment for Women and Girls

This report states that a gendered approach to HIV/AIDS treatment initiatives in resource-poor countries is necessary to address the gender inequities that make women and girls particularly vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS. The author begins by providing recommendations to make US policy towards HIV/AIDS more gender conscious. She then discusses the gendered dimensions of the disease, stating that "the AIDS crisis is fueled by women's social, economic, and biological vulnerabilities".