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gender discrimination Tag

07 May

[Dr Julie Ada Tchoukou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a licensed lawyer in Ontario. She was previously the Allan Rock Visiting Professor and a Shirley Greenberg Fellow in Women and the Legal Profession.] In February 2025, the African Union adopted the Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (CEVAWG), the first binding...

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20 Jan

[Vashti Ortego is the Global to Local Advocacy Officer at IWRAW Asia Pacific, working on gender equality and women's human rights. She is a transfeminist from the Visayas in the Philippines.] Introduction For more than three decades, the international community has recognized violence against women and girls as a form of gender-based discrimination. This understanding is firmly grounded in the practice of...

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