Tackling gender-inequality through the law: Improving accountability for gender-responsive laws at the domestic level

Project Member(s): Kirkby, D., Vijeyarasa, R.

Funding or Partner Organisation: The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop Program)
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop Program)

Start year: 2020

Publications:

Bello y Villarino, J-M & Vijeyarasa, R 2023, 'International Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, and the Challenge for the Pondering State: Time to Regulate?' in Reflections on the Future of Human Rights, Routledge, pp. 194-215.
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Vijeyarasa, R 2022, 'Three Decades of CEDAW Committee General Recommendations', Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 797-826.
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Vijeyarasa, R 1970, 'Does gender-responsive legislation make a difference on women’s lives? What do we know and where are the gaps?', Law & Society of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Annual Event, Virtual.

Vijeyarasa, R 2021, 'In pursuit of gender-responsive legislation: Transforming women's lives through the law' in Vijeyarasa, R (ed), International Women's Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the Law Work for Women, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, New York, pp. 3-15.

Vijeyarasa, R Australian Government: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 2021, Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act: Based on international law and international standards, pp. 1-9, Sydney Australia.

Vijeyarasa, R 2021, 'International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality', Routledge, UK.
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Vijeyarasa, R 2021, 'The silver bullet! Gender-responsive Legislation', BroadAgenda.

Vijeyarasa, R 1970, 'In pursuit of gender-responsive legislation', Tackling Gender-Inequality Through the Law: Improving Accountability for Gender-Responsive Laws at the Domestic Level, University of Technology Sydney.

FOR Codes: Human Rights Law, International Law (excl. International Trade Law), Justice and the Law, Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies, Law Reform, International and comparative law, International humanitarian and human rights law

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.