Lisa Davis

Lisa Davis is Associate Professor of Law, CUNY Law School, and Senior Legal Advisor, MADRE. She provides litigation and advocacy services for women’s human rights organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Follow her on twitter @lisadavisnyc

This is how we won a historic victory for women’s and LGBTIQ rights in international law

The final draft of a new international crimes against humanity treaty has dropped an outdated definition of gender, affirming the rights of all people.

By Lisa Davis

/ 26 Jun 2019

This is how we won a historic victory for women’s and LGBTIQ rights in international law

Will the new crimes against humanity treaty protect women and LGBTI persons?

It’s time for the international community to take a stand. A new treaty could affect people’s rights for generations to come.

By Lisa Davis

/ 21 Sep 2018

Will the new crimes against humanity treaty protect women and LGBTI persons?

It’s time for the international community to take a stand. A new treaty could affect people’s rights for generations to come.

By Lisa Davis

/ 21 Sep 2018

Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedent

A potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and survivors of gender-based crimes in conflict.

By Lisa Davis

/ 1 Feb 2018

Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedent

A potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and survivors of gender-based crimes in conflict.

By Lisa Davis

/ 1 Feb 2018

Standing our ground at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

When civic space is under attack, we make no dangerous accommodations. We stand up, and we fight back.

By Yifat Susskind and Lisa Davis

/ 4 Feb 2017

Standing our ground at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

When civic space is under attack, we make no dangerous accommodations. We stand up, and we fight back.

By Yifat Susskind and Lisa Davis

/ 4 Feb 2017

Who's missing from Syria's peace talks?

Those organising Syria’s peace talks must go beyond merely ticking the gender representation box. It's essential to move towards real inclusion of women peace advocates and larger civil society.

By Lisa Davis

/ 29 Jan 2016

John Kerry, where are women’s voices in the Syria peace talks?

The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for the meeting on Syria’s peace talks. Yet an indispensable party is missing: Syrian women.

By Lisa Davis

/ 18 Dec 2015

Lifting the ban on women’s shelters in Iraq: promoting change in conflict

There is a crisis-level need for shelter in Iraq, so why does the Iraqi government maintain a policy that stymies critically needed temporary housing and threatens the safety of those willing to provide it?

By Lisa Davis

/ 14 Oct 2015

Why are so many Syrian children being left stateless?

Syrian women advocates recognize the links between the crisis of statelessness and the lack of reproductive justice for women, and argue that control over their own fertility and legal status is paramount.

By Lisa Davis

/ 1 Jul 2015

Syrian women refugees: out of the shadows

Syrian women refugees cite rape, or the fear of rape, as one of the main reasons they fled. A coalition of grassroots women and international advocates has formed to integrate services and advocacy, enabling women refugees to participate in formulating the political future they want to see

By Lisa Davis

/ 16 Jun 2014