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50 Geo. J. Int'l L. 947 (2018-2019)
Protecting Rights in Small Places: Why Depriving Girls of the Right to Education Is Gender-Based Persecution and a Crime against Humanity

handle is hein.journals/geojintl50 and id is 957 raw text is: NOTE PROTECTING RIGHTS IN SMALL PLACES: WHY DEPRIVING GIRLS OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IS GENDER-BASED PERSECUTION AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AMANDA L. STRAYER* For Afghanistan's School Girls' Marwa Subhan They send poison, and sometimes daggers. They send fire, and sometimes hell. For the girls of my homeland, They bring spring, but made of ashes. ABSTRACT In recent conflicts, armed groups have strategically used violent attacks to deprive girls of their fundamental right to education, targeting girls' schools, teachers, and students in order to sow terror and reshape society to conform with discriminatory and dehumanizing ideologies. Such attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and more cause unique, severe, and long-term harms to girls' health and well-being. Yet these harms have thus far gone unaddressed by international humanitarian law, to the detriment of some of the most vulnerable victims of modern conflicts. * Amanda L. Strayer is the 2019-2020 Dale and James J. Pinto Fellow at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, where she advocates for measures to protect civic spaces and human rights internationally. Ms. Strayer received her J.D. in 2019 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she worked on strategic impact litigation challenging laws permitting child marriage in Botswana through the International Women's Human Rights Clinic and on advancing LGBT rights in Guyana through the Human Rights Institute's Human Rights Fact-Finding Practicum. She also worked on various human rights issues with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Public International Law and Policy Group, and the South African Human Rights Commission during her time at Georgetown. Prior to law school, Ms. Strayer worked with Women for Women International, where she researched violations of women's rights in conflict-affected areas and traveled to Afghanistan and Rwanda to conduct first-hand interviews with women and men impacted by conflict, violence, displacement, and poverty. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, where she studied and worked on issues relating to national security and Middle East history and politics. © 2020, Amanda L. Strayer. 1. Three Short Poems by Afghan Women to Inspire You, FREE WOMEN WRITERs BLOG (Jan. 18, 2017), https:/ /www.freewomenwriters.org/three-short-poems-afghan-women-inspire/.

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