Felisa Tibbitts

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, The Netherlands

f.l.tibbitts@uu.nl

Some years ago, when teaching a human rights course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, I noticed that the composition of my students was overwhelmingly female. I made a mental note of this and began asking colleagues who were teaching human rights in other higher education institutions about the gender balance in their classrooms. It was the same story: mostly women.

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