Human Rights, Women and Gender

2014 ◽  
pp. 305-323
Author(s):  
Chiseche Salome Mibenge
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Women and Gender

2008 ◽  
pp. 495-510
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bunch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
And Gender

This article discusses women and gender, and first identifies the differences between the concepts. It moves on to a critical examination of the norms and their institutional manifestations, along with selected UN system efforts to promote women's rights in development, peace and security, human rights, and health. The article also provides a balanced evaluation of how much things have changed for girls and women over the last sixty years.

Decolonizing Decolonization: An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on the Recognition and Rights Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-391
Author(s):  
Sherry Pictou
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The “Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework,” announced in 2018 by the federal government was originally hailed as a process for decolonization. Though the framework was withdrawn in December 2018, several policy and legislative initiatives give every indication that the framework is moving forward. In this regard, the paper seeks to open up a discussion about how decolonization is being conceptualized in the new Rights Framework from an Indigenous feminist perspective. I highlight tensions between patriarchy, neoliberalism, and contradictory concepts of decolonization to demonstrate how the Rights Framework manifests a contemporary form of patriarchal colonialism in state-Indigenous politics, especially self-government negotiations, that will continue to negatively impact Indigenous women and gender diverse persons. I further argue how the MMIWG Inquiry Final Report released in June 2019, cannot be mobilized as a tool for decolonization in seeking social justice for Indigenous women and gender diverse persons without their active knowledge and experience in directing how the recommendations are implemented. By foregrounding this experience with an intersectional, gender based analysis + or GBA+ (gender and gender diverse inclusive), and a human rights approach, I suggest there is potential for achieving Indigenous sovereignty over our bodies as well as over the land and waters in ways that are conducive to our resilience and freedom as Indigenous people.

scholarly journals Gender-Related Persecution as a Basis for Refugee Status: The Emergence of an International Norm

Refuge ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Stephanie Kuttner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
International Norm ◽  
And Gender

In 1993, Canada was the first country to formally open its doors to refugees fleeing gender-related persecution. While the timing of Canada's move may have been motivated by domestic politics, it was also tied to an international process through which the human rights of women and gender-related persecution had become politically relevant issues. This article investigates the emergence of an international norm accepting gender- related persecution as a basis for refugee status. It begins with an overview of developments on the matter in other jurisdictions and reveals the role Canada played by taking a first step. The article also reveals the process through which domestic, transnational and international actors converged to put the issue of gender-related persecution on the international agenda.

scholarly journals The Weight of Trash: Teaching Sustainability and Ecofeminism by Asking Undergraduates to Carry Around Their Own Garbage

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breanne Fahs
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Environmental Strain ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
And Gender

This essay outlines a recent assignment I designed for an upper-division cross-listed women and gender studies/social justice and human rights course I teach called, “Trash, Freaks, and SCUM.”  In the context of the students reading Edward Humes’ (2012) Garbology, the trash bag assignment asked that students carry around their trash for two 48-hour periods and that they present it to the class.  While the first two day period assesses their actual trash output, students are asked to produce as little trash as possible for the second two day period. This assignment aims to make trash visible and to help students learn about climate change, sustainability, conspicuous consumption, and how their individual carbon footprint contributes to the “big picture” of environmental strain.  I describe this assignment and its goals in this essay, followed by an assessment of its role in teaching about social justice, in order to underscore the importance of experiential learning with trash and to highlight how this assignment fits the mission of my courses on feminism and social justice.

scholarly journals Discursos sobre a Tortura de Mulheres Grávidas durante a Ditadura Militar

2020 ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
JOSÉ VERANILDO LOPES DA COSTA JÚNIOR
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Public Access ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Military

 Em diversas fontes, tais como a história, a literatura e as artes, a ditadura foi denunciada por atentar contra os direitos humanos, através de práticas de violência em desacordo com a dignidade humana. Muitos foram os instrumentos de tortura, como o choque elétrico, o ‘pau de arara’ e o afogamento. Neste texto, além de discorrer sobre as práticas de tortura direcionadas aos sujeitos que se opuseram ao regime militar, analisaremos os depoimentos de três mulheres grávidas: Maria Barros dos Santos, Márcia Bassetto Paes e Helena Pignatari, disponíveis para acesso público no relatório da Comissão Nacional da Verdade (2014), sob a ótica da representação discursiva, de Adam (2011), vinculada à Análise Textual do Discurso. As análises apontam para a construção de narrativas que, ao falar de si, relatam uma série de violências cometidas pelos militares, causando traumas e provocando o aborto dessas mulheres.Palavras-chave: Ditadura. Tortura. Mulher e gênero. Gravidez.Discourses on the Torture of Pregnant Women During Military Dictatorship ABSTRACTIn various sources, such as history, literature and the arts, the dictatorship was denounced for violating human rights, through practices of violence at odds with human dignity. There were many instruments of torture, such as the electric shock, the ‘macaw stick’ and drowning. In this text, in addition to discussing the torture that was practiced directed at subjects who opposed the military regime, we will analyze the testimonies of three pregnant women: Maria Barros dos Santos, Márcia Bassetto Paes and Helena Pignatari, available for public access in the report of the National Commission of the truth (2014), from the perspective of discursive representation, by Adam (2011), linked to Textual Discourse Analysis. The analyzes point to the construction of narratives that, when talking about themselves, report a series of violence committed by the military, due to the fact that they caused trauma and the abortion of these women.Keywords: Dictatorship. Torture. Women and gender. Pregnancy.

The United Nations, Gendered Human Rights, and Peacekeeping since 1945

2020 ◽  
pp. 745-766
Author(s):  
Sandra Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Gender

Feminist observers of peacekeeping have asked why very little has changed within the peacekeeping of the United Nations (UN) since 1945, despite a greater overall attention to questions of gender within the UN. For example, despite calls for greater representation of women on missions, they continue to constitute a small fraction of the personnel deployed; despite calls to “gender mainstream” missions, peace operations often result in heightened insecurity for some women and girls. This chapter examines the evolution of UN peacekeeping alongside an examination of the greater attention devoted to questions of women and gender within the UN system from 1945 to the present. It argues that the ultimately “problem-solving” approach to gender and peacekeeping adopted by the UN limits the possibility of any substantive impact its policies around gender may ever achieve.

Resistance and solidarity: organising for women’s human rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Barbara Williams
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Organisational Theory ◽  
Women And Leadership ◽  
And Gender

Using Lacanian, feminist, and organisational theory, this article explores the problem and question of violence against women and gender justice. In it, I argue that this violence and degradation against women is a fact, while simultaneously linking the notion of gender and its uncertain historicity to the traumatic discursive and psychical nature of en/gendering and to what this might mean for an organisation whose mission is gender justice. The inevitable push to settle the meanings of women and leadership marks the impossible desire to know. I highlight the work of an established feminist international women’s rights and gender-justice organisation and its efforts to resist this push to settle meanings and the related implications and challenges this may have on their shared-leadership model.

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