Beyond Sexual Violence in Transnational Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

This article proposes a shift away from legal feminism's excessive prioritization of sexual violence as the foremost inquiry of gender and transnational justice. In particular, the authors contend that a framework based on other gender-specific harms, such as displacement and economic insecurity, allows for a better understanding of the disproportionate impact of armed conflict on women. The authors present a comprehensive case study of the internally displaced women of Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas in the Cartagena region of Columbia. They explain how these women are victims of economic and political insecurity they are exposed to illegally armed actors, state-capture, and scarce resources. Subsequently, the authors argue in favour of adopting constructive frameworks of transnational justice that focus on redressing the political and economic harms of armed conflict on women.