scholarly journals Rights Inside Out: The Case of the Women's Human Rights Campaign

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Riles
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Inside Out

This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for “women's rights as human rights” as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call “knowledge professionals” self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of “rights” and a reimagination of rights as “rights talk” proved to be such fertile ground for academic scholarship did the same “rights” prove to be an equally fertile ground for activist networking and lobbying activities? The paper answers this question with respect to the work of self-reflexivity in creating a “virtual sociality of rights.”

Women's Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Activist Scholarship

Women’s Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice contributes to the discussion of why women’s human rights warrant increased focus in the context of globalization. It considers how psychology can provide the links between transnational feminism and the discourse on women’s human rights and neoliberalism by using activist scholarship and empirical findings based on women’s grassroots resistance. The book takes a radically different approach to women’s human rights than disciplines such as law, for example, by developing new ideas regarding how psychology can be relevant in the study or actualization of women’s human rights and by making clear how activist-scholarship can make a unique contribution to the defense of women’s rights. This radical departure from using a legal framework, or examples that have been sensationalized throughout academia and advocacy (e.g., genital cutting), provides a route for better understanding how the mechanisms of violation operate. Thus, it has the potential to offer alternatives for intervention that extend beyond changing laws or monitoring international human rights treaties. The perspectives offered by the authors are largely informed by feminist liberation psychology, women of color, and critical race and queer theories in an attempt to demonstrate how research in psychology can shed light on the diverse experiences of women resisting human rights violations and to suggest means by which psychological processes can effectively challenge the broader structures of power that exacerbate the violation of women’s rights.

Negotiating difference/negotiating rights: the challenges and opportunities of women’s human rights

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERTA GUERRINA ◽  
MARYSIA ZALEWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Women's Human Rights

The year 2004 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. A significant landmark in the development of a coherent strategy for the promotion and protection of women’s human rights, it established the principle that for women to enjoy equal rights, they needed an extra layer of ‘protection’. More importantly, it detailed states’ legal obligations in the area of women’s rights. Since then, the development of women’s human rights has continued to challenge the boundaries between the public, the private and the international. It was in this context that the Beijing women’s conference (1995) created a climate of expectation among women’s groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that the project to advance women’s human rights in practice might gather and sustain momentum. Yet, it is evident that there remains an enormous gap between the rhetoric and realities of women’s human rights, whereby women’s rights continue to be contested in countries across the world and governments are often unwilling to fulfil their international obligations.

scholarly journals Equality Now: An International Force for the Defense of Women's Human Rights

1970 ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Laurie King-Irani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights

The following conversation with lawyers Jessica Neuwirth and Surita Sundosham, women's rights activists and founders of the international women's rights monitoring organization, Equality Now, took place in Manhattan in September.

“Authentic Sharia” as Cause and Cure for Women’s Human Rights Violations in Northern Nigeria

Hawwa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Bunting
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Women's Human Rights

AbstractBy analysing the proposals contained in the report, “Promoting Women’s Rights Through Sharia in Northern Nigeria,” which was published by the Centre for Islamic Legal Studies at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria in 2005, this paper explores the complexities and consequences of a rights strategy grounded in “an authentic understanding of Sharia.” The paper argues that this strategy may further constrain the discourses of debate for Muslim women in northern Nigeria. It also discusses how the strategy privatizes responsibility for poverty eradication, and how it ignores competing languages of social change, including Nigerian and international women’s rights.

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