Women and Human Rights in the Rebuilding of East Timor

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-348
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article considers how the discourse of women's human rights has been employed in the lead up to independence in East Timor. It describes the way that the United Nations' temporary administration responded to the situation of women after the Indonesian occupation and assesses the adequacy of its attempts to 'mainstream' gender in the independence process.

A Genealogy of the Centrality of Sexual Violence to Gender and Conflict

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Engle
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring

This chapter explores the two dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict: that it is the predominant and paradigmatic concern at the nexus of gender and conflict, and that it is a tactic of war that is fueled by impunity. The chapter deconstructs the United Nations’ approaches to sexual violence in conflict and the increasingly penal response to sexual violence. It then tracks the roots of dominant understandings related to sexual violence to the women’s human rights movements of the early 1990s. The chapter concludes with critiques of sexual violence portrayals and the assumption that peace occurs in the absence of sexual violence. It also critiques the carceral response to sexual violence, which has problematically allied feminists with the police and neoliberal restructuring.

The UN Human Rights Obligations and Immunity: An Oxymoron Casting a Shadow on the Transitional Administrations in Kosovo and East Timor

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-140
Author(s):  
Julia Werzer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

AbstractOn the basis of the transitional administrations in Kosovo and East Timor, this article analyzes the compatibility of the UN human rights obligations with the wide scope of immunity enjoyed by the organization and its officials. By focusing on the right to a fair trial (and especially the right of access to a court), the author submits that the almost absolute lack of judicial mechanisms to review acts of UN transitional administrations violates the local population's human rights. Although institutions such as an Ombudsperson or a Human Rights Advisory Panel (in Kosovo) have been established, they do not constitute means of protection that are reasonable alternatives to independent and impartial courts. As a corollary, the international responsibility of the United Nations is entailed.

scholarly journals Women's Human Rights are Universal!

1970 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Randa Abul-Husn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights

Fortunately, women's human rights have become an intrinsic item on world agendas, whatever and whoever the declared International Year may promote. United Nations committees, concerned institutions and feminist groups all over the world highlight women's human rights in the family and warrant for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.

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