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Author | : Anne Hellum |
Publisher | : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Drawing on research and micro-level studies of the implementation of gender and human rights principles and laws in Africa, Europe and Asia, this comparative text addresses the failure to deliver projected human rights benefits and protections to individuals on the ground, at state, regional and international levels. Together, the chapters constitute a concerted effort to build a responsive human rights approach ?from below and within'.
Author | : Giselle Corradi |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1849467722 |
This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as post-colonial contexts. Drawing on experiences from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, the contributions in this volume analyse how different configurations of legal pluralism interplay with the legal and the social life of human rights. At the same time, they enquire into how human rights law and practice influence interactions that are subject to regulation by more than one normative regime. Aware of numerous misunderstandings and of the mutual suspicion that tends to exist between human rights scholars and anthropologists, the volume includes contributions from experts in both disciplines and intends to build bridges between normative and empirical theory.
Author | : Rachel Sieder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1136191569 |
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
Author | : Bill Derman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004250131 |
This book engages with contemporary African human rights struggles including land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic field studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of displacement, in specific geographical, historical and political contexts. Exploring local communities’ complexities and divided interests it addresses the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the processes whereby human rights have been incorporated into legislation, social and economic programs, legal advocacy, land reform, and humanitarian assistance. It shows how existing relations of inequality, domination and control are affected by the opportunities offered by emerging law and governance structures as a plurality of non-state actors enter what previously was considered the sole regulatory domain of the nation state.
Author | : Anne Hellum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107034620 |
This book analyses the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in various international, regional and national contexts.
Author | : Bård A. Andreassen |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2024-05-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1803922613 |
In this thoroughly revised second edition editors Bård A. Andreassen, Claire Methven O’Brien and Hans-Otto Sano advance contemporary discussions on human rights methodology, bringing together an array of leading scholars to offer instruction and guidance on the methodological approaches to human rights research.
Author | : Ahmimed, Charaf |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
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ISBN | : 9231003348 |
Author | : Birgit Englert |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847016111 |
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Author | : Niamh Reilly |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745654940 |
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
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Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3643998694 |