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Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Author: John Idriss Lahai; Khanyisela Moyo
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783319542010
Published In: July 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women’s rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts.

Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women’s groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces.

1. Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Khanyisela Moyo and John Idriss Lahai

2. Feminism during Social and Political Repression in Egypt: Making or Breaking Resistance Through Legal Activism

Emma Sundkvist

3. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making In Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice

Olivia Lwabukuna

4. Civil Society and the Regulation of Laws Against Gender Violence in Timor-Leste

Jeswyn Yogaratnam

5. Addressing Violence Against Women Through Legislative Reform In States Transitioning From The Arab Spring

Stephanie Chaban

6. Human Rights Frameworks and Women's Rights In Post-Transitional Justice Sierra Leone

John Idriss Lahai and Nenneh Bah

7. Engendering Justice: The Promotion of Women in Post-Conflict and Post-Transitional Criminal Justice Institutions

Susan L. Kang, Rosemary Barberet, Katherine Coronado, Ana Luisa Crivorot, Megan Helwig, Heather Jones, Vincia Merritt-Rogers, Elizabeth Ortiz, Ellen Osborne, Maria Pukhovskaya, Miranda Rupchand and Jonathan Simmons

8. Justice and Reparations Policies in Peru and Argentine: Towards The De-legitimization of Sexual Violence

Narda Henriquez and Rosario Figari Layus

9. Women Between War Scylla and Nationalist Charybdis: Legal Interpretations of Sexual Violence in Countries of Former Yugoslavia

Gordana Subotic and Adriana Zaharijevic