The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region.
The focused theme of Volume 3 is Law, Gender and Sexuality.
Editorial
âJavaid Rehman, Ayesha Shahid and Steve Foster International Conference: Law, Gender and Sexuality Friday, 26 October
Part 1: Focused Theme: Law, Gender and Sexuality
â1âComing âHomeâ? Legal Developments Relating to Transgender Communities and Implications for Muslim Family Law
âShaheen Sardar Ali â2â#MeToo, Sex Wars 2.0 and the Power of Law
âBrenda Cossman â3âNecessity of Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages Concluded Abroad
âEwa Kamarad â4âUniversalism or Cultural Relativism?: Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
âErich Hou â5âGendered Human Rights and Medical Sexing Interventions upon Intersex Children: A Preliminary Enquiry
âGiovanna Gilleri â6âSticking to Their Guns: The United Nationsâ Failure to See the Potential of Islamic Feminism in the Promotion of Womenâs Rights in Afghanistan
âFarnush Ghadery â7âART, Surrogacy, Federalism and Jus Sanguinis Citizenship in the US, Australia, and Canada
âScott Titshaw â8âGender Imaginaries, Child Soldiering, and International Criminal Law
âMonica Ingber â9âResponse of Resilience: The Delhi Gang Rape
âKarenjot Bhangoo Randhawa â10âWomenâs Rights on Trial: Gender Equality in a Family Court in Ben Aliâs Tunisia
âSarah Grosso â11âWhere Are You Going, Snail? Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Japan
âYoshiaki Sato â12âDemocratising Criminal Justice Systems: Sexual Violence Cases in the Citizen Judge Trials in Japan
âYumiko Kita
Part 2: General Articles
â13âChinese Migrant Children: Do They Have the Right to Education?
âMargaret Liu â14âFrom Faskh to Khula: Transformation of Muslim Womenâs Right to Divorce in Pakistan (1947-2017)
âMuhammad Zubair Abbasi â15âRape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy
âUmmni Khanand Jean Ketterling â16âTrans* Legalities: Preliminary Study of Files on the Recognition of Trans* Identities in Peru
âCarlos J. Zeladaand Carolina NeyraâSevilla