Alice Jill Edwards

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/alice-jill-edwards

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the academic affiliation?Distinguished Professor of Law
2. What is the global impact?Her work informs international policy, legal reforms, and academic curricula worldwide
3. Who is Alice Jill Edwards?She is a lawyer and teacher who helps people understand laws that protect people during wars and make sure everyone is treated fairly.
4. What does international humanitarian law do?It is a set of rules that tries to make wars less harmful by protecting people who are not fighting and by limiting how weapons can be used.

International Humanitarian Law (IHL): A set of rules seeking to limit the effects of armed conflict for humanitarian reasons, protecting those not participating in hostilities.
United Nations Special Rapporteur: An independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to monitor, advise, and report on specific human rights themes or country situations.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): An international treaty that promotes, protects, and ensures the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities.
Intersectionality: The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.