Legal Briefs
Submission to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review on the United States, April, 2010
On April 19, 2010, the Global Justice Center sent a submission to the UN Human Rights Council for its review of the United States, challenging the censorship of abortion speech (the "Helms Gag") on all U.S. foreign aid as a violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, including free speech.
New Visions for International Law and U.S. Foreign Policy, November 2008
How International Law Could Radically Change the Definition of Gender Equality in the United States: CEDAW and Reproductive Rights
Global Justice Now: Investing in Women Leaders as Key Players in Transitional Democracies, June 2008
A brief introduction to the different legal tools, international instruments and strategic contexts through which the advancement of women worldwide can be facilitated
Don't Fight the Phony Wars: The US Exportation of Gender Inequality, September 2007
An explanation and refutation to the Gonzales Decision of 2006 and other US antecedents to gender inequality
False Choices: Sacrificing Equality to Get CEDAW, Fall 2007
The US version of CEDAW as a dangerous perversion of women's rights
Persecuting Perpetrators of Grave Crimes Inflicted on the Peace of Burma,Janet Benshoof, LawKa PaLa (Legal Journal on Burma), August 2007
United States Implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325: Gaps and Challenges, August 2007
The Anfal Decision: Breaking New Ground for Women's Rights in Iraq, August 2007
Advancing the Legal Enforcement of SCR 1325: Structural and Political Obstacles Imposed by the United Nations Architecture, Fall 2006
A summary of the structural and political obstacles to the legal enforcement of SRC 1325 imposed by the United Nations architecture