Victims of violent crime have various rights, including to protection and to access justice. But how are these rights … playing out in practice? Are victims of violent crime properly seen, informed, empowered and heard? Do they tend to feel that … - zooms in on the experiences of one particular group of victims, namely women who endure partner violence. Taken together …

Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce Knowles are two of the richest women in the world today. Does this mean that race, gender and … article will explore this question by looking at how these two women faired as defendants in recent copyright infringement …

engage "women's rights" - focusing on sexual suffering and victimization -- to frame interventions, attract media and …

barriers to women's representation in elected office and thus the achievement of gender equality in parliaments around the … Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. Part III analyzes the impact of corruption and violence on the proportion of women in … quotas. Part IV confirms that both legislative corruption and political killings serve as significant constraints on women …

The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally … and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative … trafficked women.Taking Australia's policy response to the trafficking of women in the Asia-Pacific region as an example, the …

Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as evil … Perspectives on Women s Acts of Violence highlights and challenges normative accounts of women s violence and offers new … interdisciplinary scholarship on different aspects of women s violence. Drawing on both empirical and secondary data, chapters …