YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

The Battle After the War: Gender Discrimination in Property Rights and Post-Conflict Property Restitution

This Note looks at barriers to women's property ownership in property restitution programs in transitional justice settings. It evaluates the existing international legal framework and considers Liberia, Rwanda, Mozambique, and Guatamala as case studies of transitional justice schemes. The author emphasizes that the existing international framework needs to more explicitly recognize the equal right to post-conflict property restitution through a stronger version of the Pinheiro Principles.

The "Other" Human Rights Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

"Despite broad support for the Women's Convention, the Convention and the Committee have attracted considerably less attention than the other human rights treaties and their respective committees among those active in the field of international human rights. The women's rights community and, to a lesser extent, the human rights community, have made efforts to integrate women's rights issues into the human rights agenda, but progress has been slow.