MELBOURNE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

This article analyzes the protests and discourse on violence against women that was triggered by the 2012 case of the 'Delhi rape'. In particular, the author examines the shift away from traditional gender norms through increased demand for women's rights to bodily integrity and sexual autonomy. She also notes a simultaneous shift toward a neoliberal political rationality that increasingly characterizes the conception of gender within the global context and international legal arena. Although the protests themselves were political in nature, they also reflected the demands of

This article analyzes the way the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (the Committee) has interpreted CEDAW in response to cases of individual women under CEDAW's Optional Protocol. The author examines the analysis and results in these cases to show that the Committee has responded differently to claims based on reproductive rights and violence against women than it has to claims based on civil, political, or economic matters. The Committee has consistently condemned discrimination in cases based on the former, but has been more

The article considers the case for viewing forced marriage as a gender crime. This practice was a prevalent form of violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The article engages in a brief examination of the Special Court for Sierra Leone trials. The author argues that recognition of this practice as a form of gender violence is crucial to advancing the scope of international law. A comparison is made between the characterization of forced marriage under international criminal law and its treatment under international refugee law, where similar