How Gender Disparities during the Rwandan Genocide Transformed Regional Human Rights
The Rwandan Genocide led to positive changes in Rwandan governance and regional human rights mechanisms, especially on women’s rights.
Post Conflict Restructuring: Syrian Women Refugees
The end of the war in Syria does not signify peace for the refugees. The need of the moment is for the international community to focus on post-conflict restructuring and the holistic economic, social, and political development of the Syrian refugees.
Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act: An Eye-Wash
Aingkaran Kugathasan details the limitations of Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act in the context of the country’s patriarchal socio-cultural and legal history.
The Perfect Storm: Impunity and Violence against Women in Guatemala
The high levels of violence in Central America are often experssed as gender-based violence against women. This article discusses the use of violence against women as a weapon of war, as well as its presistence long into times of “peace”. By adressing the problems of femicide, domestic violence, and other forms of brutality directed at women and girls, we can also address the culture of violence more generally, in Guatemala, and beyond.