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Sex, Gender, and September 11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Hilary Charlesworth  and
Christine Chinkin
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 600 - 605
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

References

1 Editorial Comments, 95 AJIL 833-48 (2001).

2 A notable exception is Catharine A. MacKinnon, State of Emergency, Women’s Rev. Books, Mar. 2002, at 7.

3 See generally Zalewski, Marysia, Well, What Is the Feminist Perspective on Bosnia? 71 Int’l Aff. 339 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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6 Full Text of Tony Blair’s Speech to Parliament, GUARDIAN UNLIMITED (Oct 4,2001), at <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4270304,00.html>.

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10 The same was true in the United Kingdom. One journalist wrote that “[d]espite significant advances in the number of women in the media, the crisis has exposed how many of them are in the ‘softer’ areas of news such as features and domestic stories. In a major crisis such as this, virtually all the reporters have been men.” Bunting, Madeleine, Women and War, Guardian, Sept. 20, 2001, at 19 Google Scholar, available in LEXIS, NEWS Library, Major World Newspapers File.

11 First September 11 Films Planned, GUARDIAN UNLIMITED (Feb. 12, 2002), at <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4354575,00.html>.

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15 Id. At the same time it was announced that Cherie Blair, wife of UK Prime Minister Blair, would also front the campaign on behalf of Afghan women. Agence, France-Presse, US First Lady Laura Bush Highlights Plight of Afghan Women (Nov. 17, 2001)Google Scholar, available in LEXIS, NEWS Library, Wires File.

16 SC Res. 1325 (Oct. 31, 2000), 40 ILM 500 (2001).

17 SC Res. 1378, para. 1 (Nov. 14, 2001), 41 ILM 505 (2002).

18 Id.

19 Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, Dec. 5,2001, pmbl., at <http://www.uno.de/frieden/afghanistan/talks/agreement.htm>.

20 Id., sec. IV, para. 2.

21 Id., sec. V, para. 4.

22 Afghan Women’s Summitfor Democracy, The Brussels Proclamation (Dec. 4—5, 2001), at <http://www.equalitynow.org/afghan_womens_summit/brussels_proclamation.html>.

23 Id., Human Rights and the Constitution, Recommendations.

24 Roundtable on Building Women’s Leadership in Afghanistan, Brussels Action Plan (Dec. 10-11,2001), at <http://www.undp.org/unifem/afghanistan/call_for_action.html>.

25 Zalewski, supra note 3, at 341.

26 Id.

27 Id

28 Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 (Sept. 20, 2001), 37 Weekly Comp.Pres.Doc. 1347, 1349 (Sept. 24, 2001).

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