Welcome Remarks & Roundtable discussion of the main contributions of gender and sexuality studies in human rights theory and practice.

The session will provide an analysis and discussion of the intersectional perspective in recent cases of the Inter-American system of human rights protection, emphasizing the importance of gender, race, and class in international human rights law.

The basic concepts and contributions that feminist theories and gender studies have made to the field of human rights will be explored. For this purpose, classic and contemporary texts of national and international literature will be approached to outline the most representative lines of the encounter between these areas of study.

Women with disabilities face double discrimination in all areas of life, being gender- based violence a significant issue. Therefore, it will be analyzed how several international instruments, especially the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, guarantee the rights of girls and women with disabilities and the challenges they face due to violence and discrimination.

The class will explore how the gravity and global nature of climate change and its adverse effects make imperative that Latin American governments continue adopting immediate and long-term steps to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, based on the international human rights framework and implementing a gender perspective. The course will also offer a broad overview of the development of international human rights law standards concerning the environment and gender equality issues, and will include practical exercises.

The session will discuss the impact of feminist theories on the treatment of gender-based violence in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and transitional justice, with special reference to the case of the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP). It will address, above all, order 019 of 2021 regarding the indictment of members of the former FARC-EP secretariat for war crimes and crimes against humanity (including sexual violence).

The class will address the different methodological and ethical questions that arise from a human rights perspective involving intimate partner violence in relation to women's physical and mental health. The WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence will be discussed.

The student will analyze, from a gender perspective, the International Law of Foreign Investment, specifically the challenges in the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism. In this regard, one of the main issues to be addressed will be the marked disparity between men and women, north-south, who participate as arbitrators in investment arbitration tribunals.

This class will explore how U.S. immigration law intersects with gender, particularly looking at the following forms of relief and immigration benefits: asylum, U and T visas, and VAWA. The class will use examples from current and past cases at the GW Law Immigration Clinic to illustrate the challenges that these gender-based cases present.

An approach to the migration dynamics of women from Venezuela to Colombia will be made. The session seeks to address from a human rights and intersectionality approach the main barriers faced by women migrating from Venezuela to Colombia.