Women and the law
March 8 is International Women’s Day. To celebrate, here are some key resources on women and the law worldwide:
- Gender Jurisprudence Collections (GJC)(database of the War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) and Women in International Law Program (WILP) of the American University Washington College of Law; international criminal tribunal cases on sexual and gender-based violence)
- Gender Law Library (World Bank; legislation on women’s economic status in 183 economies; constitutional provisions, statutes, decrees and regulations, treaties on gender equality, family and inheritance law, labor law, and restrictions on women in countries worldwide; including WBL (women, business and the law) indicators)
- Family and Child Law (“the Network”; Organization of American States (OAS) Department of International Law; scroll down to “Access by Country” for links to Latin American countries information and laws)
- Women’s Legal History (WLH)(Stanford University; includes biographies of women lawyers)
- Women’s Human Rights Resources Database (University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library; a DIANA project)
- Progress of the World’s Women, 2011-2012: In Pursuit of Justice (UN Women; includes under “Legal Frameworks”, statistics of laws concerning violence against women, age of marriage, women’s rights to property ownership and inheritance, domestic violence; also includes data on rape cases, women in the domestic justice system, reservations to CEDAW, prosecutions for sexual violence in international courts, reparations, barriers to women’s access to health care, maternal mortality, and gender equality)
- OECDiLibrary (search for “gender” to find gender equality tables, the Atlas of Gender and Development, the Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GI-DB) which has social institutions statistics on family law, civil liberties, and ownership rights of women around the world; see also the Social Institutions & Gender Index (SIGI))
