Implementing Women’s Rights Laws and Policies
Implementing Women’s Rights Laws and Policies
The pandemic and post-pandemic context further threatens the creation and implementation of women’s rights laws at a time when they are most needed. Violence against women has skyrocketed while social and political upheaval diverts domestic and international resources away from managing this crisis. The articles in this virtual special issue from
Politics & Gender offer diverse ways of conceptualizing and measuring implementation across issue areas and regions. The authors show that sustained advocacy efforts are needed to improve women’s rights policies and laws.Implementing them requires increasing commitment, capacity, and funding that has become increasingly scarce.