Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

This book elucidates the tension between the promise of transitional justice and persistent social inequality and impunity. In 2001, following a generation of internal armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the Peruvian state created a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). This book places the TRC, feminist and human rights movements, and related non-governmental organizations within an international and historical context to expose the difficulties in addressing gender-based violence. Its innovative theoretical and methodological framework based on decolonial feminism and a critical engagement with intersectionality facilitates an in-depth examination of the Peruvian transitional justice process based on field studies and archival research. The book uncovers the colonial mappings and linear temporality underlying transitional justice efforts and illustrates why transitional justice mechanisms must reckon with the societal roots of atrocities, if they are to result in true and lasting social transformation.

Decolonial Feminism, Gender, and Transitional Justice in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

Using Peru as an example, this chapter explores gender-based violence in conflict and transitional justice processes through a lens of decolonial feminism. Beginning with an analysis of colonialism and gender, it provides conceptual and historical context on the complex social relations between race, class, and gender. The chapter then turns to an exploration of community perspectives on sexual violence during the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980–2000), explained through the metaphor of el patrón. By linking colonial and modern experiences of violence, the chapter illustrates the historical continuity of gender-based violence and challenges assumptions about the nature of victimhood and the benevolence of the state. The chapter examines the complex nature of victimhood in this context and the multipurpose use of sexual violence by the military, suggesting that a decolonial feminist approach is necessary to establish accountable legal systems and effective transitional justice processes.

Parallel Tracks and Fraught Encounters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Feminist Movements

This chapter examines the struggles and gaps between the protagonism of rural Andean women, or campesinas, and the priorities of the human rights and feminist movements in Peru as they try to address the ever-growing number of victims and survivors of the internal armed conflict. The armed conflict pitted the armed forces versus the Shining Path; both sides demanded allegiance from rural communities. From the beginning, campesinas were at the forefront of local efforts to denounce human rights violations and address the needs of affected people with the help of church groups and human rights advocates. Peruvian human rights and feminist movements presented the strongest potential for taking on the defense of campesinas' rights. This chapter considers how social exclusions marginalized campesina voices in the transitional justice process and how and why, despite campesina protagonism and human rights and feminist movements' best intentions, the gender-based violence directed at campesinas during the armed conflict slipped through the cracks. It also looks at the founding of the Women for Democracy, or Mujeres por la Democracia (MUDE), in 1997.

Waiting in the Garden of Broken Trees

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Gender Based

This book examines how social inequality functions within Peru's transitional justice process by focusing on the gender-based violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict of 1980–2000. It considers how Peruvian human rights and feminist movements, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Committee (PTRC), and a feminist nongovernmental organization—the Estudio por la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer, or Study and Defense of Women's Rights (DEMUS)—negotiated between implementing international human rights law and holistically addressing gender-based violence. It also explores how gender norms influence what violations the Peruvian human rights movement, and later the PTRC, prioritize; how gender norms influence dominant representations of women in the PTRC public hearings and sexual violence legal cases; and how the temporally bound nature of transitional justice exists in tension with the continuum of violence. Finally, the book discusses the influence of other social factors, such as ethnicity, language, class, and culture, on gender-based violence during the internal armed conflict.

scholarly journals Gender-based violence in 140 characters or fewer: a #BigData case study of Twitter

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemant Purohit ◽  
Tanvi Banerjee ◽  
Andrew Hampton ◽  
Valerie Shalin ◽  
Nayanesh Bhandutia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Gender Based

Humanitarian and public institutions are increasingly relying on data from social media sites to measure public attitude, and provide timely public engagement. Such engagement supports the exploration of public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine Big (Social) Data consisting of nearly fourteen million tweets collected from the Twitter platform over a period of ten months to analyze public opinion regarding GBV, highlighting the nature of tweeting practices by geographical location and gender. The exploitation of Big Data requires the techniques of Computational Social Science to mine insight from the corpus while accounting for the influence of both transient events and sociocultural factors. We reveal public awareness regarding GBV tolerance and suggest opportunities for intervention and the measurement of intervention effectiveness assisting both governmental and non-governmental organizations in policy development

Engaging the Challenges of Alleviating Wife Abuse in Northern Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Wife Abuse ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Members ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Gender Based

In recent years, gender-based violence has become highly visible and recognized by the Vietnamese state and the public more broadly. This article addresses the space that has recently widened, with the Vietnamese state's 1986 đôi mó'i or renovation policies, for local innovation and global influence on approaches to curtailing wife abuse and assisting women abused by their husbands. Anthropology can help us to understand some of the constraints and contradictions that can arise in such a space of innovation. For instance, ethnographic research reveals how local Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs), state institutions, and international organizations in Vietnam can cooperate to develop and implement new and potentially beneficial programs for abused women. Yet, at the same time, frontline practitioners struggle to implement these new approaches, with cultural lenses that limit acceptance of new ideologies, few resources that provide long-term support to abused women, or, in some cases, little exposure to the new ideas. Anthropological research can assist in identifying the cultural and structural constraints experienced by individuals working with abused women and community members, and the contradictions that can arise between the shaping and the implementing of policy addressing wife abuse, particularly globally influenced ideologies and practices introduced into a society.

scholarly journals Gender-based violence in 140 characters or fewer: a #BigData case study of Twitter

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemant Purohit ◽  
Tanvi Banerjee ◽  
Andrew Hampton ◽  
Valerie Shalin ◽  
Nayanesh Bhandutia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Gender Based

Humanitarian and public institutions are increasingly relying on data from social media sites to measure public attitude, and provide timely public engagement. Such engagement supports the exploration of public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine Big (Social) Data consisting of nearly fourteen million tweets collected from the Twitter platform over a period of ten months to analyze public opinion regarding GBV, highlighting the nature of tweeting practices by geographical location and gender. The exploitation of Big Data requires the techniques of Computational Social Science to mine insight from the corpus while accounting for the influence of both transient events and sociocultural factors. We reveal public awareness regarding GBV tolerance and suggest opportunities for intervention and the measurement of intervention effectiveness assisting both governmental and non-governmental organizations in policy development

scholarly journals La reparación en casos de violencia de género en Ecuador. Apuntes preliminares sobre los desafíos de los Centros de Atención = Reparation in the Area of Gender-Based Violence in Ecuador. Preliminary Notes on the Challenges of Care Centers

2019 ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Paz Guarderas Albuja ◽  
Ana Dolores Verdú Delgado ◽  
Celsa Beatriz Carrión Berrú ◽  
Lucianne Anabel Gordillo Placencia
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
National Norms ◽  
Gender Based

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>En el 2018 entró en vigencia en Ecuador una nueva ley de erradicación de la violencia de género que enfatiza la reparación. En este artículo nos proponemos indagar en las concepciones en torno a la reparación en la normativa nacional, así como evidenciar las transformaciones en la atención a las víctimas de violencia de género en el país. El análisis se orienta al objetivo de identificar los obstáculos y desafíos que presenta la aplicación de la nueva ley a nivel local. Como conclusión se señala la necesidad de una mayor institucionalización de los procesos de reparación de las víctimas en un contexto en el que estos recaen principalmente sobre organizaciones no gubernamentales con escasos recursos o gobiernos locales.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>In 2008, a new law for eradicating gender-based violence takes effect in Ecuador, with a new emphasis on reparation. In this paper we aim to review the conceptions regarding reparation in national norms, as well as highlighting the transformations on the attention on the victims of gender-based violence in the country. Analysis is guided by the objective of identifying the obstacles and challenges present in the implementation of the new law at local level. As a conclusion we point out that need for a greater institutionalization of the processes of victims reparation in a context in which these processes lie mainly with non-governmental organizations with scant resources or local governments.</p>

scholarly journals Gender-based violence in 140 characters or fewer: A #BigData case study of Twitter

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemant Purohit ◽  
Tanvi Banerjee ◽  
Andrew Hampton ◽  
Valerie L. Shalin ◽  
Nayanesh Bhandutia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Gender Based

Public institutions are increasingly reliant on data from social media sites to measure public attitude and provide timely public engagement. Such reliance includes the exploration of public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine big (social) data consisting of nearly 14 million tweets collected from Twitter over a period of 10 months to analyze public opinion regarding GBV, highlighting the nature of tweeting practices by geographical location and gender. We demonstrate the utility of computational social science to mine insight from the corpus while accounting for the influence of both transient events and sociocultural factors. We reveal public awareness regarding GBV tolerance and suggest opportunities for intervention and the measurement of intervention effectiveness assisting both governmental and non-governmental organizations in policy development.

scholarly journals Gendering transitional justice processes in Africa: a feminist advocacy approach to truth commissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s2 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Elias O. Opongo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Truth Commission ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Highlighting the place and role of women in transitional justice processes draws attention to two main aspects: the need for a holistic approach to transitional justice processes, and paying attention to the sensitive nature of gender-based violence in the whole cycle of truth commissions from articulation of the mandate of the commission, composition of the commissioners, categorisation of crimes, to the writing and implementation of the final report. A feminist advocacy approach to transitional justice is framed under a critical feminist strategy that draws attention to diverse forms of human rights violations against women in situations of conflict; structures of exclusion of women�s concerns; the agency and presence of women in truth commission processes. Hence, discourse on gendering transitional justice processes has recently emerged, especially given that women have been targeted in conflict situations, giving rise to sexual and gender-based violence, and indiscriminate killing of women despite their non-combatant role. This article discusses the extent of marginalisation of cases of women�s gross human rights violations in truth commission processes, while acknowledging positive attempts made so far, through critical feminism, to include women�s concerns in these processes.

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