scholarly journals Involving Men Volunteers to Effectively Respond to the Problem of Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar: United Nations Population Fund

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava ◽  
Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

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.

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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2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Theidon
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This chapter focuses on the absence of certain marginal groups from the United Nations’ Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and suggests correctives to those exclusions. The chapter discusses how men and boys as victims of sexual and gender-based violence have been erased in this agenda, and the consequences of this erasure. It challenges the assumptions of militarized masculinity as a uniformly shared identity among conflict-engaged men. It also looks at the outcome of pregnancies resulting from wartime rape and shows how children born of rape are presented and treated in their communities. The chapter draws on research conducted in Peru and Colombia and shows the necessity of understanding both the perpetration and experience of violence in nuanced ways.

scholarly journals Gender-Based violence in Pakistan: Incidences, Emerging Statutes, Intrusions & Factual Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Sehrish Neik Ch ◽  
Dr. Abida Hassan ◽  
Dr. Usman Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Current Investigation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Applied Purpose

This article discovers by facilitating a brief recognition of Gender-based violence (hereinafter GBV) and its impact in society as breach of human rights which administration is abandoning for years. It’s a misery for our country to lack in making good policies regarding gender disputes and social rights related to human beings. The article reconnoitres different behaviours in which women are being victimized, degree of violence, its effect on victims and society at large. The current investigation will also covers adequacy of prevailing laws for women’s safety; acquiescence by Government and to what extent Pakistan fulfils its legal pledge related to CEDAW? Moreover flaw existing in CEDAW and Pakistan’s current debate in parliament to have new regulations in this sphere is also being discussed. In the end, suggestions and recommendations are made for Government, United Nations and Global Community for applied purpose through which women can be provided legal safeguard.

scholarly journals VIOLENCIA CONTRA LA MUJER. UNA APROXIMACIÓN A SU DISMINUCIÓN DESDE LA ESCUELA SECUNDARIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilé Arias Méndez ◽  
Jacqueline García Pérez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based

“Women and girls face various types of violence (physical, economic and psychological), ranging from sexual comments and whistling, fondling, and raping, to the most extreme form: femicides,” as stated by the United Nations (UN) in a written communication. This worldwide organization called on governments, the private sector and society in general to eradicate the violence suffered by two out of three women; This particular problem in Mexico also shows alarming statistics which, in order to be visible nationwide, the States have issued violence alerts as a preventive measure.Education plays an important role in the transformation of this situation, rapists and rape victims are the result of educational processes that take place in classrooms, in the family and social contexts that have been organized about them, which obviously have not been completely efficient. In this regard, the intention is to organize clubs and work in favor of no gender-based violence since high school where standards and values ​​are established, promoting women respect and consideration, and the demands of this level of education are maintained

scholarly journals Domestic Violence in the African North

1970 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Fatima Sadiqi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
United Nations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Gender Based

Theories, debates, and activism on sexual health and rights have travelled withreasonable speed in North Africa in the past three decades or so and considerable headway has been achieved on this front (see Charrad, 2010; Sadiqi, 2008; Ennaji & Sadiqi, 2011). However, although related, questions of domestic violence, which may also include sexual assault and rape, have been rather side-lined theoretically, in spite of the fact that activism and legal reform remain strong in the region, and in spite of the fact that gender-based violence is considered essential to the most fundamental provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This regression in theoretical work on domestic violence in the region resulted in lack of action on the part of policy-makers.

Crossing Borders

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Burcu Ozturk ◽  
Asli Cennet Yalim ◽  
Sinem Toraman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

People around the world are moving from their home countries to other destinations to find safety for various reasons such as war, poverty, and violence. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 70.8 million people had been forced to move from their home countries by the end of 2018 and half of the world's displaced population is women. This chapter explores the challenges that refugee and asylum-seeker women experience, including mental health issues and sexual and gender-based violence. The authors systematically reviewed relevant studies that have been published in peer-reviewed journals that were from January 2000 through January 2020. Six articles met the inclusion criteria. The authors critically explored and analyzed these six articles, and the findings were discussed under the subjects of mental health and gender-based issues. Finally, recommendations were made to determine future directions for practice, policy, and research.

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.

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