scholarly journals Naciones Unidas contra las mujeres: entre la ignorancia y la soberbia (a propósito de la elaboración de un nuevo Código Penal para Honduras y las propuestas efectuadas por distintas oficinas de NNUU en materia de violencia de género y aborto) = The United Nations against women: between ignorance and arrogance (Regarding the elaboration of a new Criminal Code for Honduras and proposals made by several UN offices on gender-based violence and abortion)

2018 ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Álvarez García
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Gender Based

Resumen: Expone el autor las vicisitudes de la elaboración del nuevo Código Penal de Honduras de 2018, particularmente en referencia a violencia de género y aborto, y subraya especialmente cómo la desgraciada intervención de funcionarias del Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas y de ONU-Mujeres, carentes de suficiente formación en la materia pero sobradas de soberbia, ha impedido que en Honduras se aprobara una legislación progresista y adecuada en estas materias.Palabras clave: Naciones Unidas, Honduras, aborto, violencia de género, soberbia, ignorancia, femicidios, Código Penal, Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas, ONU-Mujeres, ACNUDH, Congreso Nacional de Honduras.Abstract: The author exposes the vicissitudes in the drafting of the new Honduras Criminal Code, particularly in reference to gender violence and abortion, and specially emphasizes how the unfortunate intervention of the officials of the United Nations High Commissioner and UN-Women, who lack sufficient training in the subject but plenty of arrogance, has prevented Honduras the adoption of progressive and adequate legislation in these mattersKeywords: United Nations, Honduras, abortion, gender violence, arrogance, ignorance, femicides, Criminal Code, United Nations High Commissioner, UN-Women, OHCHR, National Congress of Honduras.

A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Baker ◽  
Tony McEnery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

A corpus-based analysis of discourses of refugees and asylum seekers was carried out on data taken from a range of British newspapers and texts from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website, both published in 2003. Concordances of the terms refugee(s) and asylum seeker(s) were examined and grouped along patterns which revealed linguistic traces of discourses. Discourses which framed refugees as packages, invaders, pests or water were found in newspaper texts, although there were also cases of negative discourses found in the UNHCR texts, revealing how difficult it is to disregard dominant discourses. Lexical choice was found to be an essential aspect of maintaining discourses of asylum seekers — collocational analyses of terms like failed vs. rejected revealed the underlying attitudes of the writers towards the subject.

scholarly journals LA PORNOGRAFÍA DE VENGANZA COMO VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO EN EL DERECHO PENAL BRASILEÑO: LA CREACIÓN DEL TIPO PENAL POR LA LEY 13.718/18 Y LA APLICABILIDAD DE LA LEY 11.340/06

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (57) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Vládia Maria de Moura SOARES ◽  
Jamille Clara Alves ADAMCZYK ◽  
Ana Clara Mendonça CATHALAT
Keyword(s):  
Women Victims ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Derecho Penal

RESUMEN Objetivo: Se pretende alcanzar un estudio analítico de la pornografía de venganza, objetivando una mejor comprensión del fenómeno sociológico y del marco jurídico conferido al tema por el Derecho Penal brasileño, para que sea posible un enfrentamiento completo de la cuestión. El objeto será analizado exclusivamente por medio de un abordaje que toma la mujer como víctima. Es el objetivo de esta investigación verificar si se podría caracterizar dicha práctica como violencia de género y también si la pornografía de venganza podría ser adecuadamente tratada como un crimen contra la honra, como se ha estado tutelando esta conducta. Metodología: La metodología es bibliográfica, sin el estudio del intercambio en el tratamiento de la derogación penal estudiada sobre el tema; el marco legal de la conducta como delito contra el honor; la elaboración de un tipo penal específico mediante la Ley nº. 13.718/2018; y la posibilidad de aplicación de la Ley nº. 11.340/2006 (Ley Maria da Penha). Resultados: Después de toda la investigación, se constató que el fenómeno de la pornografía de venganza no puede ser considerado solamente como un crimen contra la honra, y su tratamiento como tal es inadecuado e insuficiente. Respecto al análisis de la aplicabilidad de la Ley Maria da Penha para casos de pornografía de venganza, verificase que los resultados fueron positivos en el sentido de ser posible la aplicación de esta ley para mayor protección de las mujeres víctimas de este crimen. Contribuciones: La contribución del estudio está vinculada al diálogo entre sociología y derecho, así como a estimular una investigación en profundidad sobre la Ley Maria da Penha y su extensión. PALABRAS-CLAVE: Pornografía de venganza; violencia de género; Ley Maria da Penha; Derechos fundamentales. ABSTRACT Objective: It is intended to reach an analytical study of revenge pornography, focusing a better understanding of the sociological phenomenon and the legal framework conferred to the subject by Brazilian Criminal Law, so that a complete confrontation of the issue is possible. The object will be analyzed exclusively through an approach that the woman is the victim. It is the objective of this investigation to verify whether such practice could be characterized as gender-based violence and also if revenge pornography could be adequately treated as a crime against honor, as this conduct has been protected. Methodology: The methodology is bibliographic, without the study of the exchange in the treatment of the criminal repeal studied on the subject; the legal framework of conduct as a crime against honor; the elaboration of a specific criminal type through Law Nr. 13,718/2018; and the possibility of enforcement of Law nº. 11,340/2006 (Maria da Penha Law). Results:After all investigation, it was noted that the phenomenon of revenge pornography cannot be considered only as a crime against honor, and its treatment as such is inadequate and insufficient. Regarding the analysis of the applicability of Maria da Penha Law for cases of revenge pornography, the results were positive in the sense that it is possible to apply this law for greater protection of women victims of this crime. Contributions: The contribution of the study is linked to the dialogue between sociology and law, as well as to stimulate an in-depth investigation into the Maria da Penha Law and its extension. KEYWORDS: Revenge porn; gender violence; Maria da Penha Law; Fundamental rights.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian MacNaughton ◽  
Mariah McGill
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

For over two decades, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a leading role in promoting human rights globally by building the capacity of people to claim their rights and governments to fulfill their obligations. This chapter examines the extent to which the right to health has evolved in the work of the OHCHR since 1994, drawing on archival records of OHCHR publications and initiatives, as well as interviews with OHCHR staff and external experts on the right to health. Analyzing this history, the chapter then points to factors that have facilitated or inhibited the mainstreaming of the right to health within the OHCHR, including (1) an increasing acceptance of economic and social rights as real human rights, (2) right-to-health champions among the leadership, (3) limited capacity and resources, and (4) challenges in moving beyond conceptualization to implementation of the right to health.

scholarly journals International Law, COVID-19 and Feminist Engagement with the United Nations Security Council: The End of the Affair?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Catherine O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Seminal Contribution ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Gender Based

AbstractThe gendered implications of COVID-19, in particular in terms of gender-based violence and the gendered division of care work, have secured some prominence, and ignited discussion about prospects for a ‘feminist recovery’. In international law terms, feminist calls for a response to the pandemic have privileged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), conditioned—I argue—by two decades of the pursuit of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda through the UNSC. The deficiencies of the UNSC response, as characterised by the Resolution 2532 adopted to address the pandemic, manifest yet again the identified deficiencies of the WPS agenda at the UNSC, namely fragmentation, securitisation, efficacy and legitimacy. What Resolution 2532 does bring, however, is new clarity about the underlying reasons for the repeated and enduring nature of these deficiencies at the UNSC. Specifically, the COVID-19 ‘crisis’ is powerful in exposing the deficiencies of the crisis framework in which the UNSC operates. My reflections draw on insights from Hilary Charlesworth’s seminal contribution ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’ to argue that, instead of conceding the ‘crisis’ framework to the pandemic by prioritising the UNSC, a ‘feminist recovery’ must instead follow Charlesworth’s exhortation to refocus on an international law of the everyday.

Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172097433
Author(s):  
Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir ◽  
Ronny Patz ◽  
Klaus H Goetz
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Contributions ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Country Level ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Donor Influence ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Major Donors ◽  
Expenditure Allocation

In recent decades, many international organizations have become almost entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Much existing literature suggests that major donors use their funding to refocus international organizations’ attention away from their core mandate and toward serving donors’ geostrategic interests. We investigate this claim in the context of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), examining whether donor influence negatively impacts mandate delivery and leads the organization to direct expenditures more toward recipient countries that are politically, economically, or geographically salient to major donors. Analyzing a new dataset of UNHCR finances (1967–2016), we find that UNHCR served its global mandate with considerable consistency. Applying flexible measures of collective donor influence, so-called “influence-weighted interest scores,” our findings suggest that donor influence matters for the expenditure allocation of the agency, but that mandate-undermining effects of such influence are limited and most pronounced during salient refugee situations within Europe.

The Repatriation and Resettlement of the Southern Sudanese

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Louise W. Holborn
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Refugee Population ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

While the world press has focused over the past year on problems surrounding the creation of still another refugee population in Africa — that of Uganda's Asians — far too little attention has been directed to the remarkable though still fragile process of repatriation and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Southern Sudanese. This population of displaced persons includes both refugees who fled to other countries and large numbers of homeless who hid in the bush during the civil war that wracked the Sudan for seventeen years, from 1955 through the first months of 1972. Responding to the initiatives of President Gaafar al-Nimeiry of the Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR), under an explicit mandate from the Secretary- General of the United Nations, has been raising funds, organizing activities on behalf of the most pressing needs and working closely with all local interests to meet overwhelming problems.

scholarly journals Xenofobia e violência de gênero: uma análise de manchetes veiculadas no webjornalismo brasileiro sobre mulheres venezuelanas

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-334
Author(s):  
Mauro Machado do Prado ◽  
Ana Paula de Castro Neves ◽  
Nathália Machado Cardoso Dardeau de Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Symbolic Annihilation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
América Del Sur ◽  
Digital Newspapers

O presente trabalho consiste em um estudo qualitativo das representações sociais de imigrantes venezuelanas na América do Sul no período de 2016 a 2019, a partir de manchetes de notícias divulgadas em jornais digitais brasileiros. O objetivo é verificar a ocorrência ou não de veiculações que constituam de forma explícita ou implícita uma violação à dignidade e aos direitos dessas mulheres, ao fomentar ou incitar a xenofobia e a violência de gênero na sociedade através de palavras, frases ou expressões capazes de provocar um aniquilamento simbólico. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo bibliográfico e documental acerca das vulnerabilidades sociais presentes nos processos imigratórios contemporâneos, que foi consubstanciado com a análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 2009), em abordagem qualitativa, de manchetes publicadas em jornais digitais brasileiros. A partir da análise realizada, foi possível inferir que estes veículos de comunicação vêm frequentemente descrevendo a migração venezuelana como um problema, mas em conotação negativa, sem o cuidado de descrição do contexto de forma mais clara e abrangente da questão a ser noticiada.   Xenofobia y violencia de género: un análisis de los titulares de las mujeres venezolanas en el periodismo web brasileño El presente trabajo consiste en un estudio cualitativo de las representaciones sociales de los inmigrantes venezolanos en América del Sur en el período de 2016 a 2019, a partir de titulares de noticias publicados en periódicos digitales brasileños. El objetivo es verificar la ocurrencia o no de colocaciones que constituyan explícita o implícitamente una violación a la dignidad y derechos de estas mujeres, al promover o incitar la xenofobia y la violencia de género en la sociedad a través de palabras, frases o expresiones capaces de provocar una aniquilación simbólica. Para ello, se realizó un estudio bibliográfico y documental sobre las vulnerabilidades sociales presentes en los procesos migratorios contemporáneos, el cual fue fundamentado con análisis de contenido (BARDIN, 2009), en un enfoque cualitativo, de titulares publicados en diarios digitales brasileños. Del análisis realizado, se pudo inferir que estos medios de comunicación han venido describiendo muchas veces la migración venezolana como un problema, pero en una connotación negativa, sin preocuparse por describir de manera más clara y completa el contexto del tema a reportar. Palabras clave: Derechos humanos de la mujer. La violencia de género. Xenofobia. Periodismo web.   Xenophobia and gender violence: an analysis of headings broadcasted in brazilian webjornalism on venezuelan women The present work consists of a qualitative study of the social representations of Venezuelan immigrants in South America in the period from 2016 to 2019, based on news headlines published in Brazilian digital newspapers. The objective is to verify the occurrence or not of placements that explicitly or implicitly constitute a violation of the dignity and rights of these women, by promoting or inciting xenophobia and gender violence in society through words, phrases or expressions capable of provoking a symbolic annihilation. To this end, a bibliographic and documentary study was carried out on the social vulnerabilities present in contemporary immigration processes, which was substantiated with content analysis (BARDIN, 2009), in a qualitative approach, of headlines published in Brazilian digital newspapers. From the analysis carried out, it was possible to infer that these media outlets have often been describing Venezuelan migration as a problem, but in a negative connotation, without taking care to describe the context more clearly and comprehensively of the issue to be reported. Keywords: Women’s human rights. Gender-based violence. Xenophobia. Webjournalism.

scholarly journals Commentary: Women’s Empowerment and Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the DRC

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Eileen Alma
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
National Police

In the last two years, ethnically motivated sexual and gender-based violence rose in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country marked with ethnic-based tensions and conflict over the control of its extractive industries over decades. According to the 2018 Report of the United Nations Secretary General to the United Nations, sexualized violence cases emerged and spread in several provinces in 2017 with at least 804 cases of conflict-related sexual violence in this period, affecting 507 women, 265 girls, 30 men and 2 boys. Despite progress by the international community actors to end these abhorrent practices, this marks a significant increase from the previous year and the delay in national elections has exacerbated conflict. Both non-state actors and state actors are identified perpetrators of sexual violence, including the Congolese National Police.

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