Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
- Preface
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- LAWS
- Introduction
- Human Rights, Humanitarian Laws and the Continuing Displacement in Sri Lanka
- The Foreigner and the Right to Justice in the Aftermath of September 11th
- Exclusion from Refugee Protection in Europe: An Attempt at Legal Conceptualization
- Women's Rights, Asylum Jurisprudence and the Crises of International Human Rights Interventions
- Strengthening Protection of the IDPs
- French Suburbia 2005: The Return of the Political Unrecognized
- SOUTH ASIA
- INDIA
- GENDER
- INTERVIEW/CORRESPONDENCE
- REPRESENTATIONS
- Index
Women's Rights, Asylum Jurisprudence and the Crises of International Human Rights Interventions
from LAWS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
- Preface
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- LAWS
- Introduction
- Human Rights, Humanitarian Laws and the Continuing Displacement in Sri Lanka
- The Foreigner and the Right to Justice in the Aftermath of September 11th
- Exclusion from Refugee Protection in Europe: An Attempt at Legal Conceptualization
- Women's Rights, Asylum Jurisprudence and the Crises of International Human Rights Interventions
- Strengthening Protection of the IDPs
- French Suburbia 2005: The Return of the Political Unrecognized
- SOUTH ASIA
- INDIA
- GENDER
- INTERVIEW/CORRESPONDENCE
- REPRESENTATIONS
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The growth of the international women's rights movement and its emergence as a field of research and advocacy has led to a valuable but increasingly self-contained discourse, often cut off from developments in postcolonial conditionalities (‘Postcoloniality’), on the one hand, and conceptions of the different legal contexts in which international human rights operate, on the other. Such a trajectory of ‘development’ in human rights standards for women have no doubt had an enormous impact on women's lives worldwide, but simultaneously it is also culpable of creating the ‘woman-as-victim’ subject, ‘geographically captive’ in the ‘barbaric’ cultures of the ‘Third World’.
In this article I will briefly map the developments that led to the integration of gender into the international human rights law discourse and examine how the language of ‘violence’ and ‘respectable victim hood’ (from Vienna 1993 to Beijing 1995) has been privileged leading to the dislocation of ‘discrimination’ as envisaged by the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as the primary index for measuring women's human rights violations. […]
A critique of the international asylum adjudication system is necessary to do a reality check with regard to what it can exactly offer when it comes to drawing the fundamentals of refugee rights guarantees from the basic principles of international human rights law.
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- The Fleeing People of South AsiaSelections from Refugee Watch, pp. 103 - 118Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2009