Swaine, Aisling

This article examines how the CEDAW Committee and the UN Security Council (UNSC) may operate simultaneously to maximize overall accountability for women’s rights in armed conflict.  Although both institutions have adopted concurrent provisions with respect to women and conflict, the UNSC maintains a security-focus while the CEDAW Committee operates under a feminist rights-based a

This article is in response to the UN’s Guidance Note on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (2014).

The premise of this article is to analyze the definition of gender-based violence within the context of armed conflict, partially in response to the tendency of some scholars to only “consider” strategic rape as conflict-related violence against women while ignoring other forms of violence.