Gender-Based Violence, Law, Justice and Health: Some Reflections

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geetanjali Gangoli
Keyword(s):  
Legal Protection ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Gender Based

Abstract This article is a response to the Lancet Commission on the Legal Determinants of Health from gendered perspectives and focusing on gender-based violence and abuse. The Lancet Commission sees the role of law as positive, indeed central in providing justice in global contexts, and this contribution explores and unpacks this assertion, drawing on some examples from India and elsewhere. Some feminists have argued that law and justice are incompatible for women, and this is sometimes borne out when we look at legal reforms and interventions in the field of gender-based violence. However, we also explore the ways in which some women have used legal reforms in creative ways to destabilize patriarchal norms, and more broadly, how absence of legal protection can undermine access to rights. We conclude that law can have a symbolic relationship with justice.

Gender-Based Violence and Legal Frameworks

2020 ◽  
pp. 365-377
Author(s):  
Maria Louis
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Muscle Power ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Effective Deterrent ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Gender-based violence (GBV) has grown into a pandemic. It has spread its tentacles so far and wide that no country or community in the 21st century is immune from it. There are, of course, laws to prevent GBV and punish the perpetrators of GBV. But, the laws, in general, pathetically fail to yield the desired result and fail to play the role of an effective deterrent as lawmakers themselves, most often, become lawbreakers. It is well known that patriarchy has a vested interest in gender inequality, which is the root cause of GBV. The dominant gender, male, uses violence against all other genders, including female and third gender, as a lethal weapon to prove their muscle-power, pseudo-superiority, and enjoy what is not morally and ethically and legally right. GBV is undoubtedly a human right violation. However, in the land of nonviolence, India, marital rape, among others, is still legal. Things are slowly changing, and it gives hope.

scholarly journals Narrative Imagination and Social Change: Instructors in Agricultural Colleges in Ethiopia Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
S. M. Hani Sadati ◽  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Agricultural Colleges ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the world, making female students particularly vulnerable in its post-secondary institutions. Although there is extensive literature that describes the problem, mainly from the students' perspectives, what remains understudied is the role of instructors, their perception of the current issues, and what they imagine they can do to address campus-based SGBV, particularly in rural settings. In this study, we used the concept of narrative imagination to work with instructors in four Ethiopian agricultural colleges to explore how they understand the SGBV issues at their colleges and what they imagine their own role could include in efforts to combat these problems. Using qualitative narrative-based methods such as interviews and an interactive storyline development workshop, as well as cellphilming (cellphone + film) as a participatory visual method, the data were collected across several fieldwork phases. We consider how we might broaden this framework of narrative imagination to include the notion of art for social change.

scholarly journals SYSTEM OF SUBJECTS TAKING MEASURES TO COMBAT GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL POLICE IN THE INTERACTION OF THE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4(106)) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Н. Ю. Грідіна
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
National Police ◽  
Important Basis ◽  
Executive Body

The scientific work explores the understanding of the term "system", and on the basis of the analysis of normative-legal acts the system of subjects carrying out measures of counteraction to gender-based violence is singled out. It is proved that the system of subjects of counteraction to gender-based violence is a set of bodies and institutions of public authority, which at the appropriate levels exercise, defined by regulations, the authority to achieve a common goal of combating all types of gender-based violence. The key roles of the National Police units in the system of subjects of combating gender-based violence are highlighted, as well as the leading units of the National Police are identified, which by functional component focus their efforts on combating gender-based violence. It is emphasized that the bodies of the National Police of Ukraine are assigned a number of important tasks. The National Police of Ukraine, as the central executive body that serves society by ensuring the protection of human rights and freedoms, combating crime, maintaining public safety and order, in particular, should take measures to prevent and combat domestic or gender-based violence as defined by the Law of Ukraine. "On the National Police of Ukraine". It is concluded that it is necessary to amend the regulations governing the activities of actors to combat gender-based violence in order to clearly define the procedure and responsible for the implementation of tasks and measures defined by strategic documents of the state, which will be an important basis for further addressing issues. effective functioning of the current system of subjects of such counteraction and overcoming the existing level of cases of gender-based violence in our country.

Women's Legal Rights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
African Women ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Status Of Women

In the colonial and postcolonial period, African women have advocated for legal reforms that would improve the status of women across the continent. During the colonial period, European common and civil law systems greatly influenced African indigenous legal systems and further entrenched patriarchal aspects of the law. In the years since independence, women’s rights advocates have fought, with varying degrees of success, for women’s equality within the constitution, the family, the political arena, property rights, rights to inheritance, rights to be free from gender-based violence, rights to control their reproductive lives and health, rights to education, and many other aspects of life. Legal developments at the international, national, and local levels reflect the efforts of countless African women’s rights activists to improve the status of women within the region.

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