BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Recognizing Women's Rights at Work : Health and Women Workers in Global Supply Chains

This paper focuses on women workers in global supply chains in poor countries, addressing the issue of systemic risks to women’s general health and violations of their health rights.

Rape as an Act of Genocide

This article discusses the use of rape as part of an official policy of war designed to eliminate in whole or in part a particular group: namely, rape as a tool of genocide. Part II outlines the status of rape as a crime under international humanitarian law, focusing on the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity. Part III focuses directly on the 1951 Genocide Convention and rape as an act of genocide. Part IV outlines the persistent debates surrounding genocidal rape.

Prosecuting Wartime Rape and other Gender-Related Crimes under International Law: Extraordinary Advances, Enduring Obstacles

This article formed part of the 2002 Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium on Crimes against Women under International Law. The article provides an overview of the development of the pursuit of accountability for gender-based crimes. First, the article shows how international law has largely failed to take account of crimes perpetrated against women and girls (Part I).

"Many Roads to Justice for Women: A Foreword to the Symposium Issue of the Berkeley Journal of International Law"

This article is the foreword to a special edition of the Berkeley Journal of International Law publishing the proceedings of the 2002 Stefan A. Riesenfel Symposium on Crimes Against Women Under International Law. The author prefaces her comments with an account of her own experience in helping a Salvadorian refugee bring a suit against certain branches of the government of El Salvador for sexual crimes committed against her by members of that country's national guard.