Intersectional Inequality and Women’s Imprisonment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Owen ◽  
James Wells ◽  
Joycelyn Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
The Way

In addition to witnessing and documenting women’s experience with imprisonment, this book offers offer a new analysis of the contemporary prison by re-framing the questions of trouble and violence as a further expression of broader societal inequalities and human rights violations. Combining this more structural critique with a human rights approach to imprisonment expands our understanding beyond the individualized and pathology-based explanations of women’s prison experiences. The way forward is based on this structural appraisal of the consequences of imprisonment, providing direction towards reducing unnecessary suffering and increasing prisoners’ capital inside prison and once released.

The Slippery Slope of UN Peacekeeping: Offensive Peacekeeping in Congo and Beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Slippery Slope ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Member States ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Self Defence ◽  
The Way

Fed up with the decades-old violence plaguing the DRC, the UN Security Council broke new ground by granting peacekeepers an offensive mandate to pursue rebels rather than waiting to react in self-defence. This transformation in UN military operations alarmed several States, concerned over a perceived loss of sovereignty and a weakening of the principle of non-intervention. To allay these fears, Resolution 2098’s drafters incorporated a provision expressly assuring Member States that offensive peacekeeping tactics in the DRC would not generate precedent for future UN action. However, examining past UN practice and ‘slippery slope’ theory alike reveals that explicit disavowal of precedent cannot guarantee that offensive peacekeeping will not be used as a template for future UN action. In fact, the incorporation of such language may foster the generation of a slippery slope in UN peacekeeping, ultimately paving the way for increased scope of UN intervention in situations of gross human rights violations. The article concludes by proposing a framework for how actors can manipulate slopes to generate or slow precedent for future UN action.

scholarly journals Eritrea and the Migration Dilemma in the Horn of Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Stark
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
The Way

The state of Eritrea is gradually losing its population. A variety of human rights violations including mandatory indefinite conscription is contributing to many Eritrean citizen’s choice to flee. Those that do flee, tend to go to Sudan or Ethiopia as there is a long historical and cultural connection between the three countries. Additionally, Sudan and Ethiopia have a variety of laws and institutions in place to help the various refugees they take in. However, while there is this legislation, refugees are still vulnerable segments of the population that face many troubles. This shared history, culture and the legal protections afforded to refugees, are some of the reasons why Eritreans choose to flee to Sudan or Ethiopia. Some refugees use Sudan and Ethiopia as a stepping stone on the way to Europe, this shared culture and history provides them of a taste of home while attempting to flee to a better life and the legal institutions offer them protection whether they choose to Sudan and Ethiopia or continue on their journey to Europe.

scholarly journals Reconciliation: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s contribution to dealing with the past, reconciling and building the nation

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Barry
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Expediency ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

International experience has shown that addressing past human rights violations is a necessary step in the process of reconciliation and nation building. How was post-apartheid, democratic South Africa to deal with its past human rights violations? Would it go the way of retribution in order to settle the scores of the past? Would it go the way of blanket amnesty in the name of political expediency and ignore the fate of its victims?   The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation, Act 34 of 1995, which established the TRC envisaged that national unity and reconciliation could be promoted by determining the extent, and the fate and whereabouts of the victims, of such human rights violations; giving opportunity for story-telling; recommending reparations and measures to prevent future violations; and by providing a full report. In order to do so the Commission had the power to grant amnesty to those making such disclosures.  This article, while not uncritical of the Commission, is generally positive about its contribution both in attempting to deal with the past, and in building a democratic, human rights and restorative justice culture based on the rule of law. It examines the definitions of reconciliation that emerged during the Commission in the light of a Christian definition where reconciliation is seen to be between God, others and self, and involves integration with the human community. This integration involves taking responsibility for the past, confession and repentance, forgiving and being forgiven, making restitution where possible, ongoing transformation in the present and hope for the future.

Santoso’s Jihadism, Deradicalization, and Humanization: A Preliminary Investigation on Indonesian Terrorism

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
Herdi Sahrasad ◽  
Al Chaidar ◽  
Dedy Tabrani ◽  
Teuku Syahrul Ansari ◽  
Mai Dar
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Way

Indonesia. The rise of acts of terrorism by Santoso at that time makes the public ask: How far is the deradicalization program? Why do the various community groups become more radical and brave against the apparatus/officers who promote the deradicalization program? Humanization leads to the prevention or overcoming of intensification of conflict and escalation of violence, covering the way for human rights violations or acts of genocide. Humanization refers to a strategy designed to reduce the dynamics of conflict that are destructive and face violence, especially terrorism, as the culmination of radicalism. Indonesia is still not free from inter-religious conflict. Religion, which should be eager to spread liberation and peace for our fellow human beings, is just often breached, even disturbing the integrity of Unity in Diversity. Deradicalization also include humanization because it takes the participation of sincere and serious attention.

Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Owen ◽  
James Wells ◽  
Joycelyn Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Cumulative Disadvantage ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
Gendered Harm ◽  
The Way

Women’s prisons, because they are unsafe, have become the site of state-sponsored suffering in reproducing and reinforcing multiple forms of inequality in the gendered harm of imprisonment. Using the concept of state-supported suffering, women’s prisons harm women and their life chances in unnecessary ways. Overt gender discrimination in the wider society and within the prison adds another punishing layer to the gendered cumulative disadvantage faced by justice-involved women. A focus on human rights reframes the discussion and directs attention to both reducing women’s imprisonment through non-custodial measures and incorporating a human rights approach based on respect, dignity and non-discrimination within the prison. The promise of the Bangkok Rules and other human rights instruments provide the way forward.

Conclusion: An Intersectional Future for Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Way

Intersectionality has changed the way we think about human rights. It offers a complex, comprehensive, and nuanced approach that redounds to the benefit of victims seeking redress. It allows victims to articulate the multiple and intersecting forms of subordination that have negatively affected their lives. Intersectionality rejects the anemic and siloed approach to human rights that invariably fails to capture and remedy the complex, intersectional violations that characterize the lived experience of subordination for many people. Intersectionality has positively influenced human rights discourse ranging from the UN human rights treaty bodies to local human rights organizations that have incorporated the theory into their organizational missions. The theory is gaining ground in international human rights discourse, and it will continue to transform and expand our vision of appropriate remedies for human rights violations. Only by more accurately conceiving of intersectional human rights violations can we hope to provide meaningful and comprehensive remedies to those who have experienced violations of their rights.

Carceral Containments

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-91
Author(s):  
Shannon Speed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Prison Industry

This chapter examines women’s experience in the United States, particularly in immigration detention. It considers the expansion of immigration into private, for-profit prison industry and outlines the multiple violences and human rights violations that the detention of refugees imply.

scholarly journals Human Rights - the Way Forward

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
Justice Micheal Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Memorial Address ◽  
International Human ◽  
Financial Base ◽  
The Way

The following paper was presented at the inaugural Michael Hirschfeld Memorial Address hosted by the Amnesty International Freedom Foundation on 30 October 1999. Michael Hirschfeld was instrumental in establishing the Freedom Foundation in 1989. He wanted to help stabilise Amnesty International's financial base in order to guarantee the organisation's research and international campaigning efforts against gross human rights violations such as unfair imprisonment, torture and killings. His death at the beginning of 1999 shocked and saddened fellow Freedom Foundation members who determined to establish this annual event to honour his memory and his commitment to international human rights.

scholarly journals Silence as Complicity: Elements of a Corporate Duty to Speak Out Against the Violation of Human Rights

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Wettstein
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Duty To Protect ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACT:Increasingly, global businesses are confronted with the question of complicity in human rights violations committed by abusive host governments. This contribution specifically looks at silent complicity and the way it challenges conventional interpretations of corporate responsibility. Silent complicity implies that corporations have moral obligations that reach beyond the negative realm of doing no harm. Essentially, it implies that corporations have a moral responsibility to help protect human rights by putting pressure on perpetrating host governments involved in human rights abuses. This is a controversial claim, which this contribution proposes to analyze with a view to understanding and determining the underlying conditions that need to be met in order for moral agents to be said to have such responsibilities in the category of the duty to protect human rights.

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