ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law

Who’s Missing? Women With Disabilities in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 National Action Plans

This article discusses the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1325 National Action Plans (UNSCR 1325 NAPs) and their exclusion of women with disabilities. Representation and fairness are the main reasons women with disabilities should be included in the NAPs.

Transnational Surrogacy and International Human Rights Law

Transnational surrogacy is a rapidly evolving and increasingly commercial practice used to create new families.  This article grounds itself in preventing the exploitation of vulnerable peoples, violations of human rig

The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Necessity of Adding a Provision to Ban Child Marriage

The author examines provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages (Marriage Convention) detailing how these instruments address aspects of child marriage and how they fail to effectively ban child marriage. Also addressed is the incidence of child marriage and the social, economic, cultural, religious and political causes of the practice.