Chapter in: Gender and International Criminal Law, Valerie Oosterveld, Indira Rosenthal, and Susana SáCouto, eds. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022)

Authors discuss how the Rome Statute’s opaque and outdated definition of gender has hindered accountability for gender-based crimes and explain how a coalition of advocates prevented its inclusion into the proposed treaty on crimes against humanity.

In recent years, scholars and activists have been asking queer questions about transitional justice. Queer perspectives advocate for the recognition of anti-queer violence within transitional justice; the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in transitional justice processes; and the development of queer decolonial critiques of transitional justice. Informed by this research agenda, this article develops a queer perspective on the global governance of transitional justice.

20 NW. J. HUM. RTS 1 (2021)

This article explores the concept of the crime of gender persecution under the Rome Statute, It breaks down the concept of gender persecution in three sections: (1) Understanding gender persecution as a crime; (2) Analyzing gender persecution in conflict situations; and (3) Recognizing gender persecution survivors’ rights to participation in peace processes. The article concludes with practical recommendations for the international community and local communities to increase recognition, prevention and redress for gender persecution and promote a survivor-centered approach for peace and transitional justice processes.

4 HRLR Online 290 (May 2020)

This article explores the plight of rural Afro-Colombian women who are battling multiple forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on race and gender, as they fight for their land rights against land occupations and state development plans. Nevertheless, Afro-Colombian women are at the vanguard of land rights advocacy in Colombia. This article documents their struggle for vindication.

51 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 670

This essay discusses the failure of the Colombian government to fully implement the 2016 peace accord’s protections against gender violence and to rectify disparities in the availability, accessibility, and quality of women’s health services throughout Colombia.

4 HRLR Online 249

This essay highlights the ongoing issue of gender violence in Colombia – particularly affecting Afro-descendant and Indigenous women and their communities – despite the inclusion of racial and gender justice provisions in the 2016 peace accord with the FARC.

4 HRLR Online 268

This essay discusses the demobilization of the FARC in Colombia and how it led to a power struggle among various forces, leaving Afro-Colombian areas vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) from multiple actors.

4 HRLR Online 336

This essay discusses Colombia’s high rate of assassinations of human rights defenders, with women defending Afro-descendant and Indigenous territories particularly at risk.

4 HRLR Online 324

This article discusses how conservative politicians and evangelical religious leaders in Colombia used the concept of “gender ideology” to strip the 2016 Peace Accord of its provisions protecting the rights of women, Afro-Colombians, Indigenous Peoples, LGBTIQ, and non-binary and gender non-conforming persons.  It also discusses how the harbinger of conservative opposition to human rights viewed justice for these groups as a threat to their grip on power and argues for the necessity of leadership from Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities in the implementation process.

4 HRLR Online

This essay discusses how a group of Afro-Colombian women’s rights activists and New York law professors came together to raise awareness of Afro-Colombian voices in the Colombian peace process.