scholarly journals Women’s right to health – modern challenges: international legal aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Tetyana Syroyid
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights

The article contains a detailed analysis of international legal acts regulating women's right to health; the focus is on problematic aspects that need to be addressed, including: violence, HIV / AIDS, protection during a pandemic of COVID-19. The article highlights the provisions of the following universal and regional acts of a general nature: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979), the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993), Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (2011), Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003). The article also covers proceedings of international intergovernmental forums, strategic documents, reports of the UN Secretary-General focusing on the general protection of women's rights and, in particular, the right to health, including the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action (1993), the Beijing Declaration (1995), Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health (2010), Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescent's Health (2016-2030), Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (2020), Report of the Secretary-General UN "Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19" (2020) etc. The emphasis is placed on the importance of general and special recommendations developed by international treaty monitoring bodies - the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in the field of women's health, which oblige states to comply with, protect and enforce rights in this area. In order to improve the situation in the field of protection of women's rights, the appropriate conclusions and recommendations on the im-plementation of the provisions of these acts into national state legislation have been made.

scholarly journals A Violation of Woman’s Rights under Tradition of Belis in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wawan Suriadi ◽  
Shahrul Mizan Bin Ismail
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
One Step ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Woman's Rights

Indonesia as a legal state has ratified several instruments of international law in order to protect women's rights. But restraint and violations of women's rights are still common. In East Nusa Tenggara, high dowry or Belis often trigger violence against women. This is triggered by the perception that the transfer of women's rights when the dowry or Belis has been paid by the men to the women’s family who ultimately give the ability and arbitrariness of men to commit acts of violence. So, the purpose of this study is to review more comprehensively how the practice of giving Belis or dowry in terms of international law and analyze the extent to which international and national law provides protection for the rights of women who are victims of violence. This research is legal doctrinal research using qualitative method. This research was conducted in literature by studying legislation at the national and international level, books, articles, journals, scientific reports related to the issues studied. From this study, it was found that the practice of giving Belis in the form of dowry in marriage is a cultural practice that is also protected by domestic and international law as part of the way of life or cultural rights. Acts of violence in the form of restraint on women's rights due to the repayment of Belis is a violation of women's human rights. So that these two things must be seen from two different sides. The number of national and international legal instruments does not guarantee that it can overcome the problem of violence against women. The legal culture of society in the form of high legal awareness and the willingness and commitment of the state is one step forward in order to provide protection of women's rights.

scholarly journals Women's Rights in Recent Inter-American Human Rights Jurisprudence

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 258-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Duhaime
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Ethnic Background ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

While certain aspects of women's rights had been addressed in earlier OAS instruments and more generally in the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man and in the American Convention on Human Rights, many consider that the issue of women's rights was first incorporated in the normative corpus of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) with the 1994 adoption of the Belém do Pará Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women. This treaty obliges states to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women, taking special account of vulnerabilities due to race, ethnic background, migrant status, age, pregnancy, socioeconomic situation, etc. It defines the concept of violence against women and forces states to ensure that women live free of violence in the public and private sphere. It also grants the Commission and the Court the ability to process individual complaints regarding alleged violations of the treaty. Since 1994, the Commission has also established a Rapporteurship on the rights of women, which assists the IACHR in its thematic or country reports and visits, as well as in the processing of women's rights–related petitions. In recent years, the jurisprudence of the Commission and the Court has addressed several fundamental issues related to women's rights, in particular regarding violence against women, women's right to equality, and reproductive health.

scholarly journals Quote/Unquote

1970 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Women’S Rights

Women's Rights Group Lobbies for First Woman Secretary General at the UN

Women's Rights and Opposition: Explaining the Stunted Rise and Sudden Reversals of Progressive Violence against Women Policies in Contentious Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-131
Author(s):  
Cheryl O'Brien ◽  
Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Family Discourse ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
International Conventions

AbstractInternational conventions and domestic laws have been enacted to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women worldwide. However, these progressive policy initiatives have faced opposition in contentious contexts where policy rivals have contested their creation and implementation. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on progressive networks that have led to policy advances, such as violence against women (VAW) policies, while emerging literature has noted their limited impact and implementation. However, there is scant attention paid to one major underlying cause of limited impact and problematic implementation: that there is sustained opposition to these policies by policy rivals that resist and undermine progressive policies. We identify opponents and entrenched opposition to VAW laws in Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1990s and 2010s. We also identify how these opponents leverage ties with the state and utilise ‘family discourse’, framing progressives as anti-family, as strategies and mechanisms for stunting and even reversing VAW laws.

scholarly journals Honour and Violence Against Women in a Modern Shar'i Discourse

Hawwa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 139-165
Author(s):  
Lynn Welchman
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
West Bank And Gaza

AbstractIn 2005, against the background of increased internal as well as external violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Chief Islamic Justice of the Palestinian Authority made a public intervention against 'murder as revenge or in defence of honour'. This article considers the intervention in light of the jurisprudential, legislative and social arguments it invokes, and examines both commonalities and differences in the Qadi al-Qudah's discourse and the position taken by women's rights activists on this particular form of violence against women.

scholarly journals Understanding the Communication Strategy of Women's Rights Protection in the Digital Era through Website

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Rahma Santhi Zinaida ◽  
Siti Lady Havivi
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject

<em>The National Commission on Violence Against Women in Indonesia through their website, release that there are three women who become victims of sexual violence every two hours. Kalyanamitra was chosen as the subject of the study because there are not many NGO’s committed in protecting women's rights in Indonesia that have survived for more than 33 years. This study aims to explain how the communication strategy has been done in this organization through their official website. The important of doing this study is that can inspire other NGO’s to optimize the use of online media. The theories used in this study are Media Rich Theory (MRT). This study use interpretative paradigm with the type of research is qualitative descriptive. Data were collected by using content analysis from website https://www.kalyanamitra.or.id/#. As the result, Kalyanamitra has done effective communication strategy by using techniques such as canalizing, informative, persuasive, and also educative.</em>

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