Advancing Gender Justice

The ASIL Signature Topic on Advancing Gender Justice aims to spark and advance conversations, dialogue and engagement with what it means to achieve gender justice in international law and institutions. The signature topic aims to explore the meaning of “gender justice” almost 30 years after the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; while significant strides have been made in the past three decades, much remains to be done to achieve international law’s potential.

In line with ASIL’s role as a top convenor in the field of international law, the initiative will host events and gatherings on cutting-edge issues involving gender justice in an effort to illuminate areas of convergence and divergence in movements and efforts to achieve the rights of women, in all their diversity, and gender justice more broadly, to highlight recent successes and failures of international law and institutions, and to discuss obstacles to and strategies for achieving gender justice, both within the ASIL community and beyond, while recognizing and questioning the limits of international law and institutions.