Gender and International Law: Women and the Right to Development

Waring, Marilyn

doi:10.1163/26660229-012-01-900000010

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“…18 The gendered violence implicitly, and often explicitly, condoned by international law extends beyond that directly associated with the use of force between states. Concepts like self-determination, 19 nationalism, 20 democracy, 21 development and the international economic order, 22 in their current forms, all have violent repercussions for women. Obvious examples include the transnational trafficking of women as cheap labour and sex workers 23 and the deepening feminisation of poverty resulting from the global enforcement of economic rationalism and market-based liberalisation of economies.…”

Section: International Law and Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Questions of Gender into Discussion of the Use of Force in the International Law Curriculum

Otto¹

1995

Legal Education Review

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Occupying the heartland of international law are rules which profess to regulate, and thereby restrain, violence between states. The normative regime governing violence between states consists of three categories of law: first, laws outlawing the use of force by states unilaterally, except in narrow circumstances like self defence; 1 second, laws which establish the acceptable methods of combat; 2 and third, the body of humanitarian law designed to protect certain categories of war victims. 3 These laws have sanctioned the use of increasingly destructive means of war and have failed to provide significant protection to civilians. In fact the percentage of civilian, as opposed to military, casualties of war has progressively increased since the first World War reaching the alarming current level of 90 per cent. 4 Such an extraordinary outcome results from legally authorised acceptance that military goals have priority over humanitarian considerations. 5 In this note I will first outline the shortcomings of the international legal approach to violence and its repercussions for women; and second, discuss some implications this has for the teaching of international law.

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Section: International Law and Violencementioning

confidence: 99%