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| Read On! Women in armed conflict Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:00 AM PDT  (Read On! ... occasional posts on writing we're reading) While doing some summer research on gender issues in international criminal law, I was pleased to see that the International Review of the Red Cross has recently published an entire volume focused on women in armed conflict. Here is how the Review describes the theme of the volume:
Each of the articles in the volume are available in pdf format on the website of the International Committee of the Red Cross and through Cambridge Journals. Here is a list of the articles, all of which I can commend to you, as they bring different perspectives to the discussion of women and girls in war– and men and boys, through the excellent piece at the end: ► Editorial, Toni Pfanner ► Interview with Mary Robinson ► "Between Amazons and Sabines: a historical approach to women and war," Irène Herrmann and Daniel Palmieri ► "The dialogue of difference: gender perspectives on international humanitarian law," Helen Durham and Katie O'Byrne ► "Women fighters and the 'beautiful soul' narrative," Laura Sjoberg ► "Women's participation in the Rwandan genocide: mothers or monsters?," Nicole Hogg ► "From helplessness to agency: examining the plurality of women's experiences in armed conflict," Medina Haeri and Nadine Puechguirbal ► "Women in detention," Julie Ashdown and Mel James ► "Women, armed conflict and language – Gender, violence and discourse," Laura J. Shepherd ► "Women, economy, war," Carolyn Nordstrom ► "'They came with two guns': the consequences of sexual violence for the mental health of women in armed conflicts," Evelyne Josse ► "The Security Council on women in war: between peacebuilding and humanitarian protection," Alain-Guy Tachou-Sipowo ► "UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820: constructing gender in armed conflict and international humanitarian law," Amy Barrow ► "Between rhetoric and reality: exploring the impact of military humanitarian intervention upon sexual violence – post-conflict sex trafficking in Kosovo," Samantha T. Godec ► "Lost in translation: UN responses to sexual violence against men and boys in situations of armed conflict," Sandesh Sivakumaran.  |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:20 AM PDT (Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)
 -- Molly Beutz Land (right), New York Law School Professor and IntLawGrrls guest/alumna (prior posts), in a most informative ASIL Insight, "Google, China, and Search," which situates the current saga between the web search giant and the mainland giant within the framework of human rights and corporate responsibility. For another take on this issue, see Googling Freedom, a forthcoming article by my California-Davis colleague Anupam Chander. |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:04 AM PDT  On this day in ...... 1942, the same day that The New York Times published a report that President Franklin D. Roosevelt "continued study" of death-penalty recommendations made by a special military commission he had convened, the United States executed 6 would-be saboteurs by electrocution at a jail in the District of Columbia. They were among 8 men who'd traveled by submarine from their native Germany and landed months earlier on the U.S. coast. During a recess in their July trial, defense attorneys had sought relief from the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused in Ex parte Quirin (1942). Among those executed was one Herbert Hans Haupt, whom the Court presumed held U.S. citizenship -- a presumption that would become significant in the post-9/11 judgment in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004). The Times further reported on this  day that Haupt's parents were not notified of their son's death -- for the reason that the parents and 4 other Chicagoans were in jail on suspicion of having helped their son. Also of note: the Library of Congress photo at right, of the "[k]ey figures in the trial of the eight saboteurs," includes at least 2 who'd go on to play key roles at the postwar trials of accused war criminals. They are: No. 2, Francis Biddle, then Attorney General of the United States and and later the American Judge on the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; and No. 1, Myron C. Cramer, then a Major General in the Army JAG Corps and assistant prosecutor in this trial, and later the American Judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which adjudicated the Tokyo Trial.(Prior August 8 posts are here, here, and here.)  |
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