In this article, Jenna Sapiano and Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi argue that the negotiations leading up to the adoption of the two most recent resolutions of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda of the United Nations Security Council, and the modifications made to the final accepted language, reveal how the mechanisms designed to protect and advance women's rights can also be employed to undermine them.
Read MoreInternational criminal justice involves stories of war and violence. These stories establish survivors, perpetrators, and scenes of trauma, offering representations of embodied experiences of violation. All bodies are subject to violence, but not all bodies are seen – or heard – in international criminal justice. In this article, I argue that queer bodies – that is, those with non-normative sexual and gender practices and identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people – are largely missing from international criminal justice discourses.
Read MoreFocusing on the political endeavors of sex worker rights organizations in Canada and the United States (US) to end forms of oppression caused by the criminalization of the sexual service industry, Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Kerry Porth develop an approach to solidaristic normative theory.
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