MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

This article discusses the process by which the crime of sexual slavery was included in the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) through the inclusion of the crime in the Court's "Elements of Crime" document. The author begins in Part I by discussing the ICC negotiation process and the crime of sexual slavery, contrasting this to the treatment of sexual slavery by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In Part II the author addresses the negotiation process of the ICC's Elements of Crimes and offers a critique.

[This article is part of a symposium: Should the International Legal Regime Accept a Collective or Individual Paradigm to Protect Women’s Rights?]The article takes the position that women’s rights are individual rights. Stemming from the idea that individualism and collectivism are not a dichotomy, but rather a continuum, the author goes on to illustrate that the tension between the two does not simply exist between the West and the non-Western world. Furthermore, the author asserts that to group ‘women’ into a common collectivity is artificial.

This article first outlines rural-to-urban migration in general, then the effect of migration on rural women specifically, and finally the effect of CEDAW's Article 14 on the rights of rural women. The author argues that migration has some positive effects on rural women and that CEDAW's Article 14 empowers rural women. The author documents these effects by looking at comparative case studies in China, India, Ghana and South Africa. In these case studies, the author looks at the successes achieved and limitations faced by these countries in realizing the mandates of CEDAW

This article examines the relationships between self-determination, access to food, and women's lives. The argument that the production, purchase, and distribution of food is inextricably linked to women's lives on a global scale is demonstrated through women's life stories in Canada, Australia, Estonia, Zimbabwe, and Afghanistan. The authors explore the complex relationship between political and civil rights and social, economic, and cultural rights and the significance of all rights in the context of food. The article focuses on international

This article deals with an issue of special relevance to Indigenous women: the appropriation of the scientific and technical knowledge of Indigenous peoples. The purpose of the article is to present an overview of this problem and to suggest recourse by which Indigenous peoples, and largely Indigenous women, can claim the right to control access to their knowledge and resources. This article reviews the main problems Indigenous peoples face in securing their rights and presents international and domestic legal remedies.

This article was written as part of the Michigan Journal of International Law Symposium that posed the question whether "the international legal regime should accept a collective or individual paradigm to protect women." The article identifies the individualist paradigm with the main current of contemporary liberal-individualist political thought, and more specifically with the approach to women's rights reflected in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

This article analyzes three legal instruments that address trafficking: the 2000 UN Trafficking Protocol, the 2000 American Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, and the regulations issued in 2002 by the US Department of Justice to implement the T visa for trafficking victims. The author argues that trafficking has traditionally been conceptualized as crime and migration issues, and that human rights norms must be integrated into national strategies dealing with crime and migration in order to respect the human rights of trafficked persons.