From the 1960s to the 1990s, the Danish government implemented the “Spiral Campaign,” a family planning policy that fitted four thousand and five hundred Inuit women and girls—many underage—with intrauterine…
The escalating women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan demonstrates a gap in international legal protections of the rights of women and girls. The international community should fill this gap by making…
In this interview, Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, unpacks the challenges of global human rights advocacy, the rise of authoritarianism, and the fight for accountability in…
The revocation of General License 41, which had allowed Chevron to resume limited oil operations in Venezuela under U.S. sanctions, reveals critical insights into the unintended consequences of…
Migration is an inherently gendered process. Women and girls face disproportionate risks of gender-based violence (GBV) due to systemic gender inequality and discrimination that persists throughout the migration…
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and westernmost province, spans 44 percent of its landmass yet remains its most sparsely populated and politically marginalized region, home to just 14.8 million of…
When the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs launched this online edition, I suggested that it address “human rights and human dignity.” Why dignity? As Anthony Clark Arend and I explore…
In May 2013, fighting between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the Sudanese government intensified in Sudan’s South Kordofan region. Though both the rebels and the Sudanese government have…
As the Arab Spring continues to draw attention and support from the international community, relatively little consideration has been given to the decades-long conflict in Western Sahara that began to…
