Author: Mary K. Meyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Gender Politics in Global Governance
Author: Mary K. Meyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law
Author: Alice Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494856
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Since the mid-1990s, increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women. However, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under international human rights law. Drawing on feminist theories of international law and human rights, this critical examination of the United Nations' legal approaches to violence against women analyses the merits of strategies which incorporate women's concerns of violence within existing human rights norms such as equality norms, the right to life, and the prohibition against torture. Although feminist strategies of inclusion have been necessary as well as symbolically powerful for women, the book argues that they also carry their own problems and limitations, prevent a more radical transformation of the human rights system, and ultimately reinforce the unequal position of women under international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494856
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Since the mid-1990s, increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women. However, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under international human rights law. Drawing on feminist theories of international law and human rights, this critical examination of the United Nations' legal approaches to violence against women analyses the merits of strategies which incorporate women's concerns of violence within existing human rights norms such as equality norms, the right to life, and the prohibition against torture. Although feminist strategies of inclusion have been necessary as well as symbolically powerful for women, the book argues that they also carry their own problems and limitations, prevent a more radical transformation of the human rights system, and ultimately reinforce the unequal position of women under international law.
International Human Rights in the 21st Century
Author: Lyons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585455120
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rights—especially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoples—continue to be at risk. This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a collective capacity for human rights enforcement. Above all, it emphasizes the long term efforts to stabilize weak or failing societies and to develop democratic governments on which the protection of human rights ultimately depends.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585455120
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rights—especially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoples—continue to be at risk. This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a collective capacity for human rights enforcement. Above all, it emphasizes the long term efforts to stabilize weak or failing societies and to develop democratic governments on which the protection of human rights ultimately depends.
The Legal Protection of Women From Violence
Author: Rashida Manjoo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351732838
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women from violence. There is currently no binding international convention that explicitly prohibits such violence; or calls for its elimination; or, mandates the criminalisation of all forms of violence against women. This book critically analyses the treatment of violence against women in the United Nations system, and in three regional human rights systems. Each chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages coming from the legal instruments, the work of the monitoring systems, and the resulting findings and jurisprudence. The book proposes that the gap needs to be addressed through a new United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women, or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. A new Convention or Optional Protocol would be part of the transformative agenda that is needed to normatively address the promotion of a life free of violence for women, the responsibility of states to act with due diligence in the elimination of all forms of violence against all women, and the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351732838
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women from violence. There is currently no binding international convention that explicitly prohibits such violence; or calls for its elimination; or, mandates the criminalisation of all forms of violence against women. This book critically analyses the treatment of violence against women in the United Nations system, and in three regional human rights systems. Each chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages coming from the legal instruments, the work of the monitoring systems, and the resulting findings and jurisprudence. The book proposes that the gap needs to be addressed through a new United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women, or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. A new Convention or Optional Protocol would be part of the transformative agenda that is needed to normatively address the promotion of a life free of violence for women, the responsibility of states to act with due diligence in the elimination of all forms of violence against all women, and the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.
Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights
Author: Stéphanie Lagoutte
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508938
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties. This is especially true in the area of human rights. While relatively few human rights treaties have been adopted at the UN level in the last two decades, the number of declarations, resolutions, conclusions, and principles has grown significantly. In some areas, soft law has come to fill a void in the absence of treaty law, exerting a degree of normative force exceeding its non-binding character. In others areas, soft law has become a battleground for interpretative struggles to expand and limit human rights protection in the context of existing regimes. Despite these developments, little attention has been paid to soft law within human rights legal scholarship. Building on a thorough analysis of relevant case studies, this volume systematically explores the roles of soft law in both established and emerging human rights regimes. The book argues that a better understanding of how soft law shapes and affects different branches of international human rights law not only provides a more dynamic picture of the current state of international human rights, but also helps to unsettle and critically question certain political and doctrinal beliefs. Following introductory chapters that lay out the general conceptual framework, the book is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on cases that examine the role of soft law within human rights regimes where there are established hard law standards, its progressive and regressive effects, and the role that different actors play in the incubation process. The second part focuses on the role of soft law in emerging areas of international law where there is no substantial treaty codification of norms. These chapters examine the relationship between soft and hard law, the role of different actors in formulating new soft law, and the potential for eventual codification.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508938
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties. This is especially true in the area of human rights. While relatively few human rights treaties have been adopted at the UN level in the last two decades, the number of declarations, resolutions, conclusions, and principles has grown significantly. In some areas, soft law has come to fill a void in the absence of treaty law, exerting a degree of normative force exceeding its non-binding character. In others areas, soft law has become a battleground for interpretative struggles to expand and limit human rights protection in the context of existing regimes. Despite these developments, little attention has been paid to soft law within human rights legal scholarship. Building on a thorough analysis of relevant case studies, this volume systematically explores the roles of soft law in both established and emerging human rights regimes. The book argues that a better understanding of how soft law shapes and affects different branches of international human rights law not only provides a more dynamic picture of the current state of international human rights, but also helps to unsettle and critically question certain political and doctrinal beliefs. Following introductory chapters that lay out the general conceptual framework, the book is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on cases that examine the role of soft law within human rights regimes where there are established hard law standards, its progressive and regressive effects, and the role that different actors play in the incubation process. The second part focuses on the role of soft law in emerging areas of international law where there is no substantial treaty codification of norms. These chapters examine the relationship between soft and hard law, the role of different actors in formulating new soft law, and the potential for eventual codification.
Women's Human Rights
Author: Niamh Reilly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745654940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745654940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
Gender Violence & Human Rights
Author: Aletta Biersack
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. ‘This is an important and timely collection that is central to the major and contentious issues in the contemporary Pacific of gender violence and human rights. It builds upon existing literature … but the contributors to this volume interrogate the connection between these two areas deeply and more critically … This book should and must reach a broad audience.’ — Jacqui Leckie, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago ‘The volume addresses the tensions between human and cultural, individual and collective rights, as played out in the domain of gender … Gender is a perfect lens for exploring these tensions because cultural rights are often claimed in defence of gender oppression and because women often have imposed upon them the burden of representing cultural traditions in attire, comportment, restraint or putatively cultural conservatism. And Melanesia is a perfect place to consider these gendered issues because of the long history of ethnocentric representations of the region, because of the extent to which these are played out between states and local cultures and because of the efforts of the vibrant women’s movements in the region to develop locally workable responses to the problems of gender violence in these communities.’ — Christine Dureau, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Auckland
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. ‘This is an important and timely collection that is central to the major and contentious issues in the contemporary Pacific of gender violence and human rights. It builds upon existing literature … but the contributors to this volume interrogate the connection between these two areas deeply and more critically … This book should and must reach a broad audience.’ — Jacqui Leckie, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago ‘The volume addresses the tensions between human and cultural, individual and collective rights, as played out in the domain of gender … Gender is a perfect lens for exploring these tensions because cultural rights are often claimed in defence of gender oppression and because women often have imposed upon them the burden of representing cultural traditions in attire, comportment, restraint or putatively cultural conservatism. And Melanesia is a perfect place to consider these gendered issues because of the long history of ethnocentric representations of the region, because of the extent to which these are played out between states and local cultures and because of the efforts of the vibrant women’s movements in the region to develop locally workable responses to the problems of gender violence in these communities.’ — Christine Dureau, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Auckland
Forgetting Children Born of War
Author: Charli Carpenter
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231522304
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances-the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for example-and that these concerns can overshadow the needs of others. Incorporating her research into a host of other conflict zones, Carpenter shows that the social construction of rights claims is contingent upon the social construction of wrongs. According to Carpenter, this pathology prevents the full protection of children born of war.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231522304
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances-the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for example-and that these concerns can overshadow the needs of others. Incorporating her research into a host of other conflict zones, Carpenter shows that the social construction of rights claims is contingent upon the social construction of wrongs. According to Carpenter, this pathology prevents the full protection of children born of war.
Understanding the Shifts in Migration Governance: Milestones, Challenges and Peculiarities
Author: Mehmet Gökay ÖZERİM
Publisher: Transnational Press London
ISBN: 1801352801
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
This book challenges the notion that migration governance is a fixed framework, arguing instead that it evolves in response to diverse, often unpredictable factors over time. Through a collection of insightful case studies from various geopolitical settings, this volume offers a deep dive into the evolution, key milestones, challenges, and distinctive characteristics of migration management policies. By exploring how these policies are shaped, implemented, and reformed under the influence of both internal dynamics and external pressures, the book reveals the fluid and dynamic nature of migration governance. Readers will gain a nuanced understanding of how migration policies are adapted across different countries and regions, shaped by unique sociopolitical contexts and evolving global trends. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION: UNPACKING THE DRIVERS AND MECHANISMS OF CHANGE IN MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Mehmet Gökay Özerim CHAPTER 1. THE PARADOX OF RUSSIAN MIGRATION POLICIES: UNCOVERING CHALLENGES AND CONTRADICTIONS – Aizhamal Muratalieva CHAPTER 2. MIGRATION CRISIS AND GOVERNANCE IN BRAZIL SINCE 2010 OR, HOW MIGRATION BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL EXERCISE OF POWER – João Gilberto Belvel Fernandes Júnior CHAPTER 3. SELECTIVE HUMANITARIANISM IN POLISH MIGRATION GOVERNANCE: UNDERSTANDING POLAND’S FIRST RESPONSE TO THE MIGRATION CRISES IN THE YEARS 2021-2022 – Magdalena Bogucewicz CHAPTER 4. EU/ TUNISIA RELATIONS IN SCOPE OF MIGRATION AND BORDER POLICIES: THE 2011 JASMINE REVOLUTION AS A MILESTONE – Léa Lantelme CHAPTER 5. MIGRATION GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK (MiGOF) and MILESTONES IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ MIGRATION POLICIES – Burak Yalım CHAPTER 6. THE MIGRATION GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IN SWEDEN – Malia Shir Mohammad CHAPTER 7. UNRAVELING STEREOTYPES ABOUT MIGRANTS FROM TURKEY: ASSIMILATION DISCOURSES AND MIGRATION GOVERNANCE IN GERMANY – Yağmur Erdoğmuş CHAPTER 8. THE ROLE OF TUNISIA IN THE EU’S MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Tamara Poletan CHAPTER 9. COSTA RICA: A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON THE COUNTRY’S MIGRATION POLICY AND MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Felipe Antonio Honorato CHAPTER 10. REFUGEE POLICY OF BRAZIL AS PART OF THE MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Guilherme Silva Pires de Freitas
Publisher: Transnational Press London
ISBN: 1801352801
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
This book challenges the notion that migration governance is a fixed framework, arguing instead that it evolves in response to diverse, often unpredictable factors over time. Through a collection of insightful case studies from various geopolitical settings, this volume offers a deep dive into the evolution, key milestones, challenges, and distinctive characteristics of migration management policies. By exploring how these policies are shaped, implemented, and reformed under the influence of both internal dynamics and external pressures, the book reveals the fluid and dynamic nature of migration governance. Readers will gain a nuanced understanding of how migration policies are adapted across different countries and regions, shaped by unique sociopolitical contexts and evolving global trends. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION: UNPACKING THE DRIVERS AND MECHANISMS OF CHANGE IN MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Mehmet Gökay Özerim CHAPTER 1. THE PARADOX OF RUSSIAN MIGRATION POLICIES: UNCOVERING CHALLENGES AND CONTRADICTIONS – Aizhamal Muratalieva CHAPTER 2. MIGRATION CRISIS AND GOVERNANCE IN BRAZIL SINCE 2010 OR, HOW MIGRATION BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL EXERCISE OF POWER – João Gilberto Belvel Fernandes Júnior CHAPTER 3. SELECTIVE HUMANITARIANISM IN POLISH MIGRATION GOVERNANCE: UNDERSTANDING POLAND’S FIRST RESPONSE TO THE MIGRATION CRISES IN THE YEARS 2021-2022 – Magdalena Bogucewicz CHAPTER 4. EU/ TUNISIA RELATIONS IN SCOPE OF MIGRATION AND BORDER POLICIES: THE 2011 JASMINE REVOLUTION AS A MILESTONE – Léa Lantelme CHAPTER 5. MIGRATION GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK (MiGOF) and MILESTONES IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ MIGRATION POLICIES – Burak Yalım CHAPTER 6. THE MIGRATION GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IN SWEDEN – Malia Shir Mohammad CHAPTER 7. UNRAVELING STEREOTYPES ABOUT MIGRANTS FROM TURKEY: ASSIMILATION DISCOURSES AND MIGRATION GOVERNANCE IN GERMANY – Yağmur Erdoğmuş CHAPTER 8. THE ROLE OF TUNISIA IN THE EU’S MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Tamara Poletan CHAPTER 9. COSTA RICA: A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON THE COUNTRY’S MIGRATION POLICY AND MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Felipe Antonio Honorato CHAPTER 10. REFUGEE POLICY OF BRAZIL AS PART OF THE MIGRATION GOVERNANCE – Guilherme Silva Pires de Freitas
Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Author: B. D'Costa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617743
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR bringing together the work of feminist scholars, teachers and activists into a coherent and accessible collection.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617743
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR bringing together the work of feminist scholars, teachers and activists into a coherent and accessible collection.