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Research Article:
GENDER JUSTICE IN PUERTO RICO:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, LEGAL REFORM,
AND THE USE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN
RIGHTS PRINCIPLES
By Jodie G. Roure
Human Rights Quarterly Law Journal
[August 2011])
Prof. Jodie Roure, JD, PhD is currently an Associate Professor in the Latin
American and Latina/o Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, CUNY. She has conducted extensive research in the area of human rights
including violence against women in Brasil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican
Republic, Cuba, and the United States. Professor Roure is also an expert
witness in this area. Her scholarship further includes research on pipeline
education, race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. She teaches
in the areas of domestic violence/gender rights, criminal justice,
international human rights, international criminal justice, race, class, and
ethnicity in the United States, and Latina/o studies. Additionally, she is the John
Jay Director of the St. John’s Law School Prep Program. Her article “Gender Justice in Puerto Rico:
Domestic Violence, Legal Reform, and the Use of International Human Rights
Principles” (Human Rights Quarterly Law Journal [August 2011]),
examines the state of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. It investigates the
ways by which grassroots movements and governmental agencies work
collaboratively and independently towards the eradication of violence and
discrimination against women on the islands. It also explores the islands past
experience in managing change to create systems and programs that ensure
women’s human rights and gender equality. It analyzes related legal reform in
Puerto Rico within the context of human rights.
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