Smiley, Susannah

Taking the "Force" out of Enforcement: Giving Effect to International Human Rights Law Using Domestic Immigration Law

In this article, the author argues that domestic immigration and refugee policies can be interpreted as domestic enforcement of international human rights law obligations. The author focuses on how domestic laws are giving effect to the human rights of women refugees. Women's status as refugees constitutes an international recognition that their country of origin has violated their human rights.

Recognizing Forced Impregnation as a War Crime Under International Law

This report seeks to provide governmental, international and nongovernmental organizations interested in bringing those responsible for committing crimes against women to justice, whether in the former Yugoslavia or elsewhere, with a conceptual and legal framework for understanding, analyzing, and documenting "forced impregnation" in war. The report argues that forced impregnation is a war crime under current international humanitarian law and that it should be explicitly named, recognized, and prosecuted as such.