Women, Gender and Human Rights

3 Credit Hours

This seminar will examine the treatment in international human rights law of issues relating to women and gender. Topics to be covered include, among others: gender-based violence; family and reproductive rights; gender identity rights; militarized and institutionalized sexual violence; and discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity. We will focus close attention on the relevant treaties and related instruments, as well as on the practice and jurisprudence of international courts. Examples will also be drawn from domestic legislation and decisions of national courts, particularly under US law.