Defining Human Trafficking and Identifying Its Victims

Defining Human Trafficking and Identifying Its Victims
Author: Venla Roth
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004209247

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal framework against trafficking in human beings and examines why anti-trafficking strategies and activities have proved to be more ineffective and unsuccessful than anticipated on the international level and specifically in Finland.

Gender-Sensitive Norm Interpretation by Regional Human Rights Law Systems

Gender-Sensitive Norm Interpretation by Regional Human Rights Law Systems
Author: Maria Sjöholm
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004343571

In Gender-Sensitive Norm Interpretation by Regional Human Rights Law Systems Maria Sjöholm examines the jurisprudence on gender-based harm in the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights law systems from the viewpoint of feminist legal methods and theories. By offering indicators relevant for gender-sensitive norm interpretation, Maria Sjöholm identifies inconsistencies in the current regional legal frameworks with regard to the protection of women concerning such violations as domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual violence, forced sterilization and restrictions on other reproductive rights. The book offers an in-depth account not only of the manner in which such harm has been recognized through integration in general human rights law treaties, but also the categorization of such as particular human rights norms by regional human rights courts and commissions.

Making Human Rights a Reality

Making Human Rights a Reality
Author: Emilie Hafner-Burton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-03-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0691155364

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.

Women, Migration, and Conflict

Women, Migration, and Conflict
Author: Susan Forbes Martin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9048128250

An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children. During their time away from their homes and communities, these women and their children are subjected to a horrifying array of misfortune, including privations of every kind, sexual assaults, disease, imprisonment, unwanted pregnancies, severe psychological trauma, and, upon return or resettlement, social disapproval and isolation. Written by the world’s leading scholars and practitioners, this unique collection brings these problems - and potential solutions - into sharp focus. Based on extensive field research and a broad knowledge of other studies of the challenges facing women who are forced from their homes and homelands by conflict, this book offers in-depth understanding and problem-solving ideas. Derived from a project to advise U.N. agencies, it speaks to a broad array of students, scholars, NGOs, policymakers, government officials, and international organizations.

Report of the Expert Group on Strategies for Combating Trafficking of Women and Children

Report of the Expert Group on Strategies for Combating Trafficking of Women and Children
Author: Expert Group on Strategies for Combating Trafficking of Women and Children
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780850927238

Extrait de l'introduction : "Trafficking in persons, especially women and children, for commercial sexual exploitation is one of the fastest growing areas of international criminal activity and of increasing concern to the international community, including the Commonwealth. Trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation, forced labour, marriage, adoption and the trade in organs are additional areas of concern, but are less well documented. The overwhelming majority of trafficked persons are women and girls. Consequently, this discussion focises primarily on strategies to combat the unlawful trafficking of women and children."

Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?

Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?
Author: Maria Eriksson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004225951

The crime of rape has been prevalent in all contexts, whether committed during armed conflict or in peacetime, and has largely been characterised by a culture of impunity. International law, through its branches of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, has increasingly condemned such violence and is progressively obliging states to prevent rape, whether committed by a state agent or a private actor. Whereas the prohibition of rape has been consistently recognised in these areas of law, the definition of the offence has been a later concern to international law. Attempts to define the crime have, however, been made by the ad hoc tribunals (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), regional human rights courts and UN treaty bodies. Increasing duties are thus placed on states, not only to prevent rape through the enactment of criminal laws, but to adopt specific elements of the crime in domestic legislation. This study systematises and analyses such emerging obligations in international law. This leads to overarching questions on the fragmentation and harmonisation of norms between various regimes in international law.

International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts

International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
Author: Chile Eboe-Osuji
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004202625

Beginning with an attempt at understanding evil doing during armed conflicts, from both the general perspective and the particular angle of sexual violence itself, this book explores ways of shoring up international legal protection of women from sexual violence in armed conflicts.

Traffic in Asian Women

Traffic in Asian Women
Author: Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478012285

In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932–1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the "comfort women" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how "Asian women" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of "comfort women" stories.

The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking

The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking
Author: Jessica Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135071691

Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims. Jessica Elliott argues that when applied to situations of human trafficking, migration and sexual exploitation, the notion of consent presents problems which current international laws are unable to address. Establishing the presence of 'coercion' and a lack of consent can be highly problematic, particularly in situations of human trafficking and exploitative prostitution; activities which may be deemed inherently coercive and problematically clandestine. By examining legal definitions of human trafficking in international instruments and their domestic implementation in different countries, the book explores victimhood in the context of exploitative migration, and argues that no clear line can be drawn between those who have been smuggled, trafficked, or 'consensually trafficked' into a situation of exploitation. The book will be great use and interest to students and researchers of migration law, transnational criminal law, and gender studies.

A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century

A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Author: W. Mulligan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2013-05-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 113703260X

The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.