WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY

This inaugural presentation delivered by the Chair of the CEDAW Committee reviews the status of the rights of women under different human rights instruments, their actual condition, and the development of the work of CEDAW. She argues that the equality of men and women in all spheres of life cannot be fully achieved through mere signature, ratification, or accession to an international treaty.

The article addresses Global Critical Race Feminism (GCRF) as a general theme and focuses specifically on how the theory will apply to the women of Afghanistan in a post 9-11 setting. The author begins by outlining the roots of GRCF, presenting a brief review of Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory and Feminism. She then moves on to address the Afghan context using her Global Multiplicative Identity theory (GMI). GMI acknowledges that everyone's identity is informed by multiple categories some of which provide us with privilege while others cause us to face discrimination.