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The American Society of International Law has a Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG) "created to promote and enhance the careers of women in the field of international law. [11] Every year, the WILIG Prominent Woman in International Law Award honors those who have advanced women, gender, and women's rights in international law.
International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello). [1] [2] It is a branch of international law that seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict by protecting persons who are not participating in hostilities and by restricting and regulating the means and methods of warfare available to combatants.
Between 2006 and 2013, Zegveld was a professor at Leiden University, where she lectured on international humanitarian law, in particular on the rights of women and children during armed conflict. She has been professor of war reparations at the University of Amsterdam since the end of 2013.
Durham is an expert in international humanitarian and criminal law, and has published academic work on topics such as women and war; the laws of war; and the prosecution of crimes against civilians. [2] Durham has worked at the Asia Pacific Centre of Military Law at Melbourne Law School as Director of Research. [11]
Also in late 2013, UN Women launched a constitutional database that examines constitutions through a gender lens. The first of its kind, this database maps the principles and rules that guarantee, deny, or protect the rights of women and girls around the world. This tool for gender equality and human rights activists is annually updated and ...
Protected persons is a legal term under international humanitarian law and refers to persons who are under specific protection of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, their 1977 Additional Protocols, and customary international humanitarian law during an armed conflict.
Through a global database and analysis, the RULAC Project has as its aim an assessment of the implementation by states of the law applicable in armed conflicts: international humanitarian law; international human rights law; international criminal law; refugee law
Paula Ventura de Carvalho Escarameia was born in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, on 1 June 1960.She graduated in 1983 in Law from the Catholic University of Portugal, following this with a course at the Bologna campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), part of the Johns Hopkins University (1984).