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Motherhood as an Amplifier of Inequalities in International Legal Academia
06.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral...
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Care as Legal Knowledge
06.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating...
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Mothers of Acari
06.03.2026
Carolina Lozano Martinez
Xilene Margarita Díaz Palacio
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. This post examines the case of the Mothers of Acari and argues that it represents a pioneer maternal activism experience before the Inter-American Human...
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‘I’m… Your… Mother’
05.03.2026
Miriam Bak McKenna
Maj Grasten
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. While the term ‘mother’ is not strictly defined in international law, normative constructions of ‘motherhood’ (encompassing the socially constructed and prescribed expectations placed upon...
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Motherhood and Laws of Social Reproduction
04.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Everything has a value. Even those forms of labour that society persistently devalues, like motherhood and the caregiving work accompanying it. In contemporary societies,...
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When Protection Becomes Persecution
04.03.2026
Devran Gulel
Sanja Djajić
Ruth Dineen
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. “My crime is being a victim of domestic violence in a foreign country.” (Mothers' Voices, 2023) TW // Domestic violence The 1980 Hague Convention on...
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Why the Context of Childbirth Matters for Human Rights Law
04.03.2026
Verónica García de Cortázar
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Childbirth is a life-changing event in a woman’s life. Yet a significant proportion of women worldwide experience obstetric violence and mistreatment during childbirth at...
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Non/Motherhood and Reproductive Violence in International Criminal Law
03.03.2026
Mariagiulia Masiero
Arianna Vettorel
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Reproductive violence, and, more broadly, gender-based violence, has long been a recurring feature of armed conflicts, authoritarian governance, and systemic discrimination, specifically and disproportionately...
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Mothers and Others?
03.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. In a binary system, everything is either one thing or the other: A is never B. Gender scholars have long critiqued these dichotomies as...
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When “Consent” Becomes Control
03.03.2026
Dilruba Begüm Kartepe Kemaloğlu
Mariia Zheltukha
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. "This ‘positive’ sense of the word ‘liberty’ derives from the wish on the part of the individual to be his own master. I wish...
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Girls, Forced Pregnancy, and the Right to Non-Motherhood under International Human Rights Law
02.03.2026
Paulina Macías Ortega
Samantha Rodríguez Santillán
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. International human rights bodies and courts have progressively characterized forced pregnancy as a form of gender-based violence that violates adult women’s rights to autonomy,...
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Motherhood as the Norm; Non-Motherhood, Conditions Apply
02.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Parenthood can be a source of meaning, care and fulfillment for many. It is not, and need not be, for all. Across time and...
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‘Women Are Mothers’ as the Worst Stereotype of All
02.03.2026
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. ‘The most globally pervasive of the harmful cultural practices […] is the stereotyping of women exclusively as mothers and housewives in a way that...
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Introducing the Fifth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
02.03.2026
Sissy Katsoni
Polina Kulish
Rishiti Choudaha
Céline Chausse
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. Held each year...
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