Women's Human Rights Resources Programme (WHRR)

Canada. Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law, (Ottawa: Ministry of Supplies and Services, 1977) (Chair: Robin Badgley)*

This paper discusses that the discourse of sexuality and sexual autonomy is often promoted to a lesser extent than other human rights in armed conflict situations due to its contested and “controversial” nature.

This article explores the prevailing pattern of the absence of women from decision-making bodies during times of conflict because of them being portrayed as intrinsically weak and vulnerable and in need of protection.

This report deals with sexual violence during periods of wartime and the struggle that with understanding this crime due to the difficulties associated with studying it.

This research article focuses on the increase in female gender-based non-domestic sexual violence and the characteristics of women who are survivors of this type of violence.

This UN Policy report examines the impact of the 2022 war between Ukraine and Russia on women and girls. The report focuses chiefly on sexual violence against women, food insecurity and malnutrition, and energy poverty.

This article examines the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) throughout the world, arguing the act is a distinct violation of International Human Rights laws that protect a person’s right to health and physical integrity and the right to be free from cruel acts.

This article discusses how the use of vouchers in underserved states like Yemen can significantly improve access and quality of reproductive, maternal, and newborn healthcare services.

This article summarizes the efforts of the five-country community led intervention that enjoined women living with HIV in Latin America to document, categorize, and legally advocate against sexual and reproductive health violations.

This article compares contemporary legal developments in Indian reproductive rights with that of Nepal, another South Asian country that has made significant recent progress in that area.

This article evaluates the impact of gendered stereotypes on abortion reform in Uruguay, determining whether the country’s relatively liberal abortion law further undermines international human rights efforts to suppress harmful stereotypes against women.

This study relies on data from the 2018 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, a statewide representative sample of Florida youth in public middle and high schools, to explore the effects of race/ethnicity and gender on youths’ chances of receiving a school suspension.

This study traces the local phenomenon of the death penalty in the United States, finding that both race and gender factors are key indicators of death sentences within communities.

This article connects racialized violence to the United States’ formation and persistence, which has historically used race as the baseline historical indicator for injury and reparation.

This article relies on multi-site archival research to explore the way in which 1970s France racialized the regulation of commercial sex and its relation to the preservation of gendered, racialized, and class-dependent sexual order.

This article critically surveys the Brazilian Supreme Court decision in Arguição De Descrumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (“ADPF”) 324, a landmark case in which the court declared prohibiting labour outsourcing as unconstitutional.

This report outlines the methods and findings of the Programme, ‘Implementing Norms, Changing Minds’ that ran between February, 2017 and January, 2020.

This article reviews intimate partner violence (IPV) in the 22 countries of the Arab League, where many women face existing barriers to social, political, and economic equality. IPV is a gender-based human rights issue that significantly affects women and girls.

This book is a study into state intervention regarding discrimination against women and girls, and specifically into gender hierarchies and stereotypes that feed gender-based violence (GBV).

This article explores the ways that gender-based violence (GBV) is perpetrated and normalized on social media platforms, and the difficulty in addressing GBV due to jurisdictional issues on the national and international levels.