Reproductive violence and forced recruitment: Colombia’s landmark ruling for ex-combatant women and girls

In this blog, Christine Chinkin and Keina Yoshida discuss the significance of a recent ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court on the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and young girls in armed groups and in post-conflict peace processes. Christine Chinkin submitted an amicus brief based on her expertise to the court. You can read the Constitutional Courts decision on full here

Groundhog day at the UN Security Council: the 2021 WPS Open Debate

Christine Chinkin reflects on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda today and the continued promises followed by failed implementation as we see the persistent set back of women’s human rights globally

Giving voice and visibility to victims of sexual violence has the potential to drive cultural change in Colombia

Professor Christine Chinkin reflects on the power of grassroots initiatives and the potential for PSVI to contribute to transformative justice for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence against women

How new technologies are violating women’s rights in Saudi Arabia

Christine Chinkin and Madeleine Rees consider the scope and content of International Law at the intersection of new technologies, violence against women and war

UK government launches new national action plan on women, peace and security

Christine Chinkin provides an initial response* to the UK Government’s fourth National Action Plan (NAP) on women, peace and security

Feminism and International Law: A Reply

Over the past several years, legal scholars have extended feminist theory to many areas of the law, and legal discourse has been enriched by feminist jurisprudence. Until recently, however, international law had not undergone a sustained feminist critique. This gap is now slowly being filled; a notable contribution to that effort is a recent article by Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright. This Essay presents a reply to the Charlesworth-Chinkin-Wright critique. Although much of this reply engages more general issues in feminist theory, it would be impossible, within the scope of this work, to address every important political, cultural, biological, epistemological, and metaphysical issue raised by the various feminist critiques of traditional jurisprudence. I therefore confine the analysis to arguments directly relevant to international law, focusing on the analogies and contrasts between the differing feminist approaches to international law and the Kantian theory of international law defended in my previous writings

Communicator, Dec. 2010

Volume 23, Issue

Discontinuance and Withdrawal: Article 62

Article 62 provides the major procedural device by which the interests of States not party to proceedings before the ICJ are protected by the Court. The procedure is termed intervention. Intervention: is based, inter alia, on the need for the avoidance of repetitive litigation as well as the need for harmony of principle, for a multiplicity of cases involving the same subject-matter could result in contradictory determinations which obscure rather than clarify the applicable law