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The State of Women Judges Across Africa
Judges from Cote D'Ivoire From June 3-7, 2019, women judges across Africa converged in the beautiful city of Abidjan – the capital of...
African Women in Law
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Black Women Ambassadors: Contesting International Gender Hierarchies
(L-R) Dr. Dawuni, Amb. Mulamula, Amb. Chihombori-Quao and Amb. Phillip-Browne In 1991, Charlesworth, Chinkin and Wright’s article on...
African Women in Law
Dec 29, 20184 min read
LEAD Book Launch and Seminar: International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives
On 7 September 2018, the Center for Research on Law, Equity and Diversity (LEAD) at the Faculty of Law at Queen Mary University of...
African Women in Law
Oct 31, 20183 min read
Women and International Courts: Gender, Tokenism or Personal Agency?
On May 7, 2018, the Erasmus University International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and the African Foundation for International Law...
African Women in Law
May 28, 20181 min read
Striking at the Glass Ceiling: A Tale of Seven Judges (and a Lawyer)
** This post was originally published on BLISS: The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. Memories came racing back for...
African Women in Law
May 26, 20185 min read
GLOBAL VOICES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND WOMEN JUDGES
On December 5, 2017, the Wilson Center Women in Public Service Project and the Institute for African Women in Law hosted a panel...
African Women in Law
Apr 8, 20183 min read
International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives
A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the...
African Women in Law
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Achieving Gender Parity in International Courts and Bodies: Does Diversity Matter?
From October 3 to 5 2017, women’s rights advocates, feminist scholars, Ambassadors, Heads of Government, policy practitioners and...
African Women in Law
Feb 3, 20187 min read
Global Voices in International Law: International Courts and Women Judges
On December 5, 2017, Dr. Josephine Jarpa Dawuni, the Executive Director of IAWL organized a panel discussion at the Wilson Center to...
African Women in Law
Dec 30, 20171 min read
Vive la Diversité! A Roadmap to Gender Parity on African Regional Courts?
Read the latest blog cross-posted from the Feminist Critiques of International Courts Symposium. As of May 2017, the African Court on...
African Women in Law
Aug 18, 20178 min read
Race to the top? African women judges and international courts
African women judges are rising in international judicial positions.
African Women in Law
Aug 10, 20165 min read
Ghanaian Female Judges Urged To Pursue International Judgeships
Preparing women judges for international judicial positions.
African Women in Law
Aug 4, 20162 min read
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