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Labor Protection for Women Victims of Domestic Violence in Brazil
Law No. 11,340/2006, also known as the "Maria da Penha" Law, was created after the condemnation to exclusively protect women victims of violence. In...
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Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches
This article explores the limitations of criminal legal responses to gender-based violence in Australia, specifically sexual assault law reforms and...
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Semiotics of Legal Transplants: Exploring Domestic Violence Justice in Uzbekistan
This research examines the implementation and judicial response to Uzbekistan's new domestic violence laws enacted in 2023. Through an exploration of...
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Proving Domestic Violence as Gender Structural Discrimination before the European Court of Human Rights
Since Opuz v. Turkey (2009), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered over a dozen judgments in which it examined domestic violence...
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Law and Sexual Violence: A Critical Ethnography of Higher Education in India
The political articulation of sexual violence, as legally understood today, took place in India from 1970s onward. In succeeding decades, its...
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#AidToo, or when situation permits rape: sexual violence among humanitarian aid workers
This article explores the prevalent issue of sexual violence against and among humanitarian aid workers, with a focus on why the aid sector creates a...
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Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India
Feminists have had spectacular successes transnationally in shifting the norms governing family life through legislation proscribing domestic...
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Conducting Research on Combating Sexual Violence in Polish Academia: Social Contexts, Legal Notes, and Preliminary Results
This article presents research on the scale of the phenomenon of sexual violence against students at selected 33 universities across Poland, the...
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Compromise on Parenting and Family Violence? Reforms to Canada’s Divorce Act
This paper contributes to international feminist debates on shared parenting and family violence via reforms to Canada’s Divorce Act, in force since...
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Talking Across Differences: Networks, Law and the Violence of the Word
In this paper, I propose to use Johan Galtung’s notion of structural violence as aguide for linking society’s problems of processing social meaning...
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Recognising the shadow pandemic in the humanitarian sector: ending violence against women in the aftermath of COVID-19
In all domains of society, from health to the economy, security, and human rights, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are amplified for women and...
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Sport, Sexual Violence and the Law: A Feminist Critique and Call to Action
Sport is a microcosm of society. In this connection, in as much as there are reasons to celebrate individual athletic prowess and the undeniable...
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Gender-Based Violence Without a Legal Gender: Imagining Single-Sex Services in Conditions of Decertification
This article considers what the implications of decertification would be for single-sex services such as domestic and sexual violence support. Some...
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Gendered Violence: A Human Rights Agenda for Criminology
Despite extensive research that documents the physical, economic, and social costs associated with gendered violence and the development of human...
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Avoiding Discomfort, Implying Consent: The Role of Euphemism in Establishing Evidence of Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is responsible for prosecuting individuals for heinous crimes that take place during civil and/or...
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Consolidating International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Protection from Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Non-International Armed Conflict
Academic discussion on the adequacy of international law, in particular international humanitarian law (IHL), to protect women from and to respond to...
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Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa
This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa. It argues that violence against women is a manifestation of...
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Credibility, Trauma, and the Law: Domestic Violence-Based Asylum Claims in the United States
In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in Matter of A-B- , attempted to bar victims of non-state actors—such as intimate partners and local...
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Non-disclosure Agreements: When Contracts Serve Sexual Violence and How to Deal with Them
On October 5th, 2017, the New York Times published an article that would establish the #MeToo movement and help millions of women across the globe to...
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Heteroglossia and Identifying Victims of Violence and Its Purpose as Constructed in Terrorist Threatening Discourse Online
Unlike one-to-one threats, terrorist threat texts constitute a form of violence and a language crime that is committed in a complex context of public...