scholarly journals UK Newspapers’ Portrayal of Yazidi Women’s Experiences of Violence under ISIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
Busra Nisa Sarac
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Extremist Group

Although as of early 2019 ISIS has lost all of the territories it occupied, scholarly and media attention has continued to focus on its barbarity and brutal treatment of the women living in its former territories. The extremist group has committed a long list of severe human rights violations since it seized territories in Iraq and Syria. In this article, I aim to illustrate the reporting of this violence against the Yazidi women from 2014 to 2019 by the UK’s national newspapers because the media’s portrayal of these women shapes public opinion and policy towards this group in relation to the violence they have endured. The results indicate that while UK national newspapers give preferential treatment in their coverage of Yazidi women’s experiences of violence, abuse, and torture, they often ignore these women’s agency and activism in terms of the extent to which these women resisted and coped with the atrocities they endured.

Feminist reconstructions of universalism and the discourse of human rights

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Public Sphere

In recent years, universal principles and, in turn, the universalistic discourse of human rights, have fallen under critical review by feminist scholars. This is part of a more general suspicion of a search for universalism and abstraction in law: feminist legal scholars have highlighted and critiqued the gendered dimension of such an approach.1Particular concepts fundamental to political, legal and social theory such as justice,2equality,3freedom4and rights5have been under the spotlight to see if their structure leads to detrimental consequences for women. Criticisms of rights have taken a variety of forms with rights being seen as too individualistic, reinforcing existing power imbalances, failing to account for women’s experiences and focusing too much on the public sphere.

The Alyne Case

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kia Lilly Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Maternal Death ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This chapter analyzes the 2002 maternal death of Alyne da Silva Pimentel and the 2011 decision made by the Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel’s family. The chapter argues that the Alyne case highlights the intersectional relationship among gender, race, and class in shaping Afro-Brazilian women’s vulnerability to maternal death. The analysis explores the racial dimensions of maternal mortality in Brazil and highlights the potential benefits that can be gained from using a human rights approach to address African-descendant women’s experiences of intersectional discrimination.

The Right to be Human: How Do Muslim Women Talk about Human Rights and Religious Freedoms in Britain?

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-75
Author(s):  
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Western Values ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

Abstract This article examines existing literature and data from qualitative fieldwork with Muslim women in Britain to analyse their narratives of human rights and freedom, as they live within plural European contexts. In scared, securitised and polarised Europe, Muslim women have become visible markers of otherness. Each Muslim woman becomes a fulcrum upon which Western values and morality are measured against the “other”, its values, its beliefs and its choices. In exploring the implications of societal othering on Muslim women’s experiences of their human rights, this article concludes that in social contexts that are polemical, becoming the other dehumanises Muslim women who thus become ineligible for “human” rights. In such contexts, a human rights-based approach alone is insufficient to achieve “dignity and fairness” in society. In addition to human rights, societies need robust and rigorous dialogue so that societal differences become part of a new mediated plural reality.

scholarly journals Women’s experiences of safety apps for sexualized violence: a narrative scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Doria ◽  
Christine Ausman ◽  
Susan Wilson ◽  
Annalisa Consalvo ◽  
Jad Sinno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Sexualized Violence

Abstract Background Sexualized violence against women is a significant human rights problem worldwide. Safety apps have the capacity to provide women with resources to prevent or respond to experiences of sexualized violence. Methods The aim of the following study was to review the scope of the literature on women’s experiences of safety apps related to sexualized violence. The databases Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus were systematically searched, and seven studies were included in this review. Results Thematic analysis identified the following themes in the literature: (1) security; (2) accessibility; and (3) knowledge. Conclusion The gaps in the literature are identified and implications and recommendations for future research is discussed.

Social representations of human rights violations: Further evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Clémence ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Willem Doise
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Individual Actions

Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their understanding of human rights violations in similar ways across nations. At the same time, systematic variations characterized opinions about human rights violations, and the structure of these variations was similar across national contexts. Differences in definitions of human rights violations were identified by a cluster analysis. A broader definition was related to critical attitudes toward governmental and institutional abuses of power, whereas a more restricted definition was rooted in a fatalistic conception of social reality, approval of social regulations, and greater tolerance for institutional infringements of privacy. An atypical definition was anchored either in a strong rejection of social regulations or in a strong condemnation of immoral individual actions linked with a high tolerance for governmental interference. These findings support the idea that contrasting definitions of human rights coexist and that these definitions are underpinned by a set of beliefs regarding the relationships between individuals and institutions.

Women's Experiences in Educational Leadership

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1022-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Rogers ◽  
Meryl Sirmans
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences
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