EMORY INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW

This article addresses the issue of human trafficking and its broadening definition over the past few decades. It details specific manifestations of trafficking, such as mail-order brides from the Philippines, temporary and transactional marriages in Egypt, and children being sold into marriages or prostitution in parts of Asia. It then describes national measures taken to address human trafficking, such as states incorporating trafficking offences into their criminal codes, and international measures, such as the CEDAW Committee's consideration

This article provides an overview of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. Specifically, it focuses on the international developments that led to the conference, the various restrictions on reproductive rights found throughout the world at the time of the conference and their relation to the overall problem of population growth, as well as the substantive content of the agreement reached at the conference, and the factors that can foster the implementation of the conference's plan of action.

This article examines the key human rights protections relevant to family law, explores the tension between religious understandings of marriage and family and broad conceptions of human rights, and argues that pluralism in family law weakens community bonds and societal connections and can pose challenges for the protection of human rights, especially for women and children. The author concludes that, just as the State cannot place "the family" outside the realm of human rights, it cannot invoke pluralism to insulate social and legal practices from human rights scrutiny.

The author reviews the history of mass rape during war and the international legal provisions

This note explores the background to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (PFA), discussing prior UN documents and conventions relating to women's rights. The author argues that the same weakness exists for these latest conventions as did past ones: the focus of international law is States while human rights is concerned with individuals. The Fourth World Conference did not change this, therefore the Beijing Declaration and the Platform will never meet the standard which would elevate them to customary international law.

This article scrutinises the stand of the Catholic Church with respect to abortion, and recommends certain measures that should be taken. The first part of the article deals with the traditional attitude of the Catholic Church towards abortion and the role it has played in the international arena. The second part addresses the role and influence of the Catholic Church at the national level, analysing in particular the liberalisation process of abortion law in Spain.