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Vol. 24, Pages 193-211
This article reviews the remarkable growth in empirical literature in political science on wartime sexual violence against civilians, including rape, sexual slavery, forced…
Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require direct contact between researchers and…
Carr Center Discussion Paper Series 2020-007
The Charter of the Commission on Unalienable Rights includes the objective of proposing “reforms of human rights discourse where it has departed from our nation’s founding…
When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights…
“I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.”
- Shirley Chisholm
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm made history as the first African American woman to seek…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow .
An authoritarian…
In this episode of PolicyCast, Dr. Timothy McCarthy discusses the Women's March on Washington.If the Women’s March on Washington was a spark, what does it now take to fan that…
Dara Key Cohen's Op-Ed published in the New York Times.
"The Trump transition team asked the State Department last week to submit details of programs and jobs that focus on…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was prosecution, and they called for more of it. But…
This working paper focuses on the legal protection awarded to the Arab populations under Israeli jurisdiction.
In analyzing their legal protection, the author…