![handle is hein.journals/jihr20 and id is 1 raw text is: Copyright 2021 by Lisa Davis Volume 20, Number 1 (2021)
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
DUSTING OFF THE LAW BOOKS: RECOGNIZING
GENDER PERSECUTION IN CONFLICTS AND
ATROCITIES
Lisa Davis'*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: WHY GENDER PERSECUTION?.....................................2
I. UNDERSTANDING GENDER PERSECUTION.......................................5
A. Discrimination at the nexus of sex and gender ..............14
B. Discrimination at the nexus of sexual violence and
gender-based violence.............................................................17
II. APPLYING A GENDER PERSECUTION LENS ....................................27
A. Gender-based persecution during World War II in
G erm any ........................................................................... . . 29
B. Gender-based persecution in conflicts today......................36
III. RECOGNIZING GENDER PERSECUTION SURVIVORS' RIGHTS TO
PARTICIPATION..............................................................................53
A. Women's participation in peace processes .............................54
B. A gender persecution survivor-centered approach to
peace and transitional justice processes.................................56
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................60
1* Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice [HRGJ]
Clinic at the City University of New York [CUNY] School of Law. Professor Davis has written and
reported extensively on international human rights and gender justice, including women's rights and
LGBTIQ rights, with a focus on peace building and security issues in conflict and disaster settings. Prof.
Davis is a member of the Justice Rapid Response-U.N. Women Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Experts Roster and serves as the Senior Legal Advisor for MADRE. The Author thanks Patricia Viseur-
Sellers, and Valerie Oosterveld for their peer review, J.M. Kirby and Emily Kenny their editorial
assistance and Meagan Barrera, Daniel Bradley, Hannah Kohn, Marina Kumskova, and Genevieve Marcy
for their research assistance. Author thanks Justice Rapid Response for their support of this article, with
special thanks to Nina Joyce and Rebecca Murphy.
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