Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Learning from Women's Groups in Indonesia

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Marilyn Porter
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
International Instruments ◽  
The Way

This paper focuses on the way in which Jakarta women's groups responded to the crisis that preceded and succeeded the end of Suharto's regime in Indonesia. In particular it looks at the way in which the gang rapes of women of Chinese descent focused and united the feminist response to the turmoil of 1998. Women's groups developed a number of strategies and actions during this period, but this paper focuses on the way in which women's groups accessed and used international instruments, especially Human Rights instruments to challenge their own government and to develop a specifically feminist position on violence against women. This activity is described as a form of creative ‘borrowing’. Seen in this context is can provide a new perspective on approaches to development that are genuinely indigenous and participatory.

The Reputations of Human Rights Commissions in Canada

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Brian Howe ◽  
Malcolm J. Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Community Expectations

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to report on a study of the reputations of provincial human rights commissions in Canada among interested community organizations, women's groups, and minority groups. The focus of the study was on the reputations of commissions for effectiveness, responsiveness, and fairness in handling human rights complaints and implementing programmes against discrimination. The study was designed to test for an hypothesized relation between levels of public funding of commissions and their reputations in the above areas. It was anticipated that the lower the commission's funding the poorer the commission's reputation. Results of the study show that while commissions have generally poor reputations among community organizations, their low ratings are not related to levels of funding. The suggestion made is that poor reputations may be related to other factors such as high community expectations of rights delivery in an increasingly rights-conscious political culture and the structure of human rights procedure.

Universal human rights and non-Western normative systems: a comparative analysis of violence against women in Mexico and Pakistan

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIE BOVARNICK
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The Way

How universally useful are human rights in addressing violence against women? This article addresses this question by looking at the link between gender, ethnicity and human rights to uncover the complexities that underpin current debates about universal justice and multiculturalism. While my discussion of rape in Mexico and Pakistan illustrates significant particularities with respect to how violence against women is constituted in these different cultural contexts, it also shows that culturally specific manifestations of violence against women often share striking similarities in the way that they are allowed to persist, justified and made invisible. As such, they are part of a global mechanism that reproduces gender subordination in a predominantly patriachal world.

scholarly journals Violencia de Estado y violencia de género. Las paradojas en torno a los derechos humanos de las mujeres en México

Revista Trace ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Level ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Mouvements Sociaux ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
International Instruments

En este artículo, la autora reflexiona sobre el proceso contradictorio vivido en la última década en México: por un lado una política exterior en materia de derechos humanos muy exitosa a nivel internacional, en la que se han ratificado varios instrumentos internacionales en contra de la discriminación y violencia hacia las mujeres; paralelamente existe una política interna en la que la violencia de Estado se justifica en nombre de la “paz social” y se utiliza en contra de las mujeres activistas e integrantes de movimientos sociales.Abstract: In this article, the author reflects on contradictory policies in Mexico during the last decade: on one hand a very successful foreign policy on human rights at international level such as several international instruments against the discrimination and violence. Those instruments have been ratified towards women, but on the other hand, as the author observes, State violence against women justified in the name of “social peace”, used against activist women and members of social movements.Résumé : Dans cet article, l’auteur analyse le processus contradictoire que connaît le Mexique depuis une dizaine d’années. D’un côté, une politique extérieure réussie en matière de droits de l’homme au niveau international et politique qui ratifie les instruments internationaux contre la discrimination et la violence exercées à l’encontre des femmes et, parallèlement, une politique intérieure où la violence d’État est justifiée au nom de la « paix sociale » et s’exerce contre les femmes activistes et les membres de mouvements sociaux.

scholarly journals Violence Against Women in Croatia

1970 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

The violence against women in former Yougoslavia is chilling. Below are excerpts from one of the many tragedies reported. These were transmited to Al-Raida from the International PEN Women's Committee and a Women's Group in Croatia. Women's groups all over the world are networking the news and planning for action and protest.

Deconstructing Turkey’s “Open Door” Policy towards Refugees from Syria

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcu Togral Koca
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Open Door ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Liberal Policy ◽  
The Way

Turkey has followed an “open door” policy towards refugees from Syria since the March 2011 outbreak of the devastating civil war in Syria. This “liberal” policy has been accompanied by a “humanitarian discourse” regarding the admission and accommodation of the refugees. In such a context, it is widely claimed that Turkey has not adopted a securitization strategy in its dealings with the refugees. However, this article argues that the stated “open door” approach and its limitations have gone largely unexamined. The assertion is, here, refugees fleeing Syria have been integrated into a security framework embedding exclusionary, militarized and technologized border practices. Drawing on the critical border studies, the article deconstructs these practices and the way they are violating the principle of non-refoulement in particular and human rights of refugees in general. 

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