I wrote about the International Law Commission and its abysmal record on gender representation over the years, for a joint symposium by GQUAL and Opinio Juris. Check out the statistics.
“Comfort Women”, the “Birangona” and historical war time sexual violence: Ignoring wounds of the past?
I attended the opening of the exhibition on Women & War at the Ayala Museum in the Philippines. Hearing a Lola - or grandmother who survived the ordeal of being a “Comfort Woman” - made me think of this issue more, and also look into the often forgotten '“Birangona” of Bangladesh. What hope for justice and redress?
