The one thing that has stood out to me while studying CEDAW is the incredible effort
activists have made to use the Convention and turn it into an instrument of social …

During the years that I dedicated to write this dissertation, a myriad of people accompanied
me, encouraged me, and supported the progress of this project in many ways. I would like to …

Focusing primarily on CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination Against Women), this article examines the role that international human rights …

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights
in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on the politics of …

If women's rights norms have become internationally acknowledged, is it reasonable to
assume that the status of women worldwide has improved because of international norms? It …

This article examines the modes of circulation of discourses and practices about women's
rights and women's empowerment in transnational nongovernmental organizations. Using …

As the new millennium leaves behind the most violent of centuries, human rights activists
and international agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been …

Culture and rights usually seem at war with each other. They are portrayed as opposites,
such that the advance of one means the retreat of the other. Anthropologists have criticized …

In the last thirty years, a process of global norm creation in the field of gender equality has
taken place. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against …

South Africa is infamous for its history of disenfranchising most of its population under the
dehumanizing policy of apartheid. A country of almost 50 million people, South Africa has a …