Manjoo, Rashida

Trafficking of Women: Norms, Realities, and Challenges

This paper focuses on the transnational trafficking of women.

Gender-Based Violence and Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas

The article explores the relationship between gender-based violence and armed conflict. Increasing international awareness regarding the impact and implications of violence against women has led to numerous mechanisms attempting to address accountability in this regard. Despite this, the problem of gender based violence in the context of armed conflict remains an issue. Women continue to face the threat of violence even after the threat of conflict has ceased. The article aims to document the increasing awareness of this issue, as well as the challenges that lay ahead in

50th Anniversary Commemorative Letter: Due Diligence Obligations and Violence against Women

The letter recognizes and advocates the need for holistic protection of women's rights. The author argues for States to take responsibility in eliminating violence against women. The letter cites measures, such as legal and policy frameworks, responsive criminal justice systems, the provision of social services, and economic empowerment policies as crucial to the due diligence that States must undertake to protect women. The letter posits that the question is whether we as a society are willing to hold governmental actors accountable for their lack

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences - Addendum - Communications to and from Governments (Delivered at the 14th Session of the Human Rights Council)

This addendum to the Special Rapporteur's annual report contains summaries of communications between governments of various countries on individual cases and general situations of concern to her mandate, addressing a wide array of issues that reflect a pattern of inequality and discrimination related to violence against women, its causes and consequences. The report notes that in a substantial number of cases, violations were allegedly committed by state agents in contravention of Article 4(b) of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. It

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences (Delivered at the 14th Session of the Human Rights Council)

This report provides recommendations for reparations to women who have been subjected to violence. It addresses the fact that most humanitarian and international human rights treaties provide for the right to a remedy and discusses the conceptual challenges facing remedy provision. The report examines significant substantive and procedural trends to reverse this, both in the discussion and in the practice of reparations. The Special Rapporteur calls upon States to determine how to effectively compensate victims for harms suffered and provides suggestions for

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences (Delivered at the 17th Session of the Human Rights Council)

In this report, the Human Rights Council (Council) proposes the adoption of a holistic framework to address multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that contribute to violence against women. The report describes the forms of violence against women that prevail, addressing its consequences and providing three perspectives for understanding the causes (psychological/individual, feminist and societal). It then goes on to propose a holistic approach for conceptualizing and addressing violence against women based on the various interconnections between

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences (Delivered at the 66th Session of the U.N. General Assembly)

This report provides an overview of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women's work and summarizes the findings to date. In the report, the Special Rapporteur describes the most prevalent manifestations of violence against women and confirms that domestic violence remains widespread and affects women of all social strata, with vulnerable women at a higher risk. Despite legal prohibitions, practices in the family and the community that are harmful and degrading to women and girls, including sexual violence, sexual harassment, violence suffered as a result of a woman's