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On Becoming Human and Being Humane: Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Species Rights

This essay focuses on the nexus of vulnerability and rights. It argues that in transforming vulnerability from a stigma that alienated women from their humanity to the signature of human dignity, women bridged the gap between the liberatory promise of human rights and its exploitative patriarchal politics. It finds that the ideas of Mary Wollstonec...

Intimate Partner Violence, prevalence and its consequences: a community-based study in Gambella, Ethiopia

Published in Frontiers in Public Health

Abstract Introduction Intimate partner violence is defined as any behavior by a current or past male intimate partner during marriage, cohabitation, or any other formal or informal union that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm. Men are the most common perpetrators of this against women. It affects almost one-third of all women worldwide...

The Emerging Civil Right to Counsel in India: On ‘Enforceable’ Directive Principles

Published in ICL Journal

This Article challenges one of the most robust commonplaces in the study of Indian Constitutional Law, viz. that Directive Principles of State Policy under Article IV cannot be enforced by the judiciary. Through a careful reading of the Constitution’s text and structure, as well as an investigation of relevant precedents within India, the United St...

The Italian Constitutional Court on Women’s Rights: Patriarchal Remnants Versus Transformative Interpretations

Published in ICL Journal

Aiming at contributing to the debate about the effectiveness of constitutional courts in enhancing the protection of women’s rights, this paper focuses on the case law of the Italian Constitutional Court. After an introduction on the role, functions, and composition of the Court, three foci will be put on the Court’s case law: (1) on the abolition ...

The Italian Constitutional Court on Women’s Rights: Patriarchal Remnants Versus Transformative Interpretations

Published in ICL Journal

Aiming at contributing to the debate about the effectiveness of constitutional courts in enhancing the protection of women’s rights, this paper focuses on the case law of the Italian Constitutional Court. After an introduction on the role, functions, and composition of the Court, three foci will be put on the Court’s case law: (1) on the abolition ...

Female Leadership in Shia Islam: Women on the Way from Mujtahid to Marja’

Marja’ al-taqlid are Shia religious scholars of the highest level, something which takes decades to achieve. At present, most Shia scholars agree that women cannot be Marja’, i.e., create religious rulings for other people. But there is a space for discourse, and there are even a few scholars who disagree with the mainstream narrative. In this pape...