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Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers an up-to-date overview of human rights frameworks, in particular with regard to women
  • Highlights the local conditions that frame the social, gendered, familial and cultural context of post-transition, with a concern for the broader issues of human rights, neoliberalism, and human development
  • Draws on interdisciplinary research by scholars and practitioners from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political science, communication, human rights, international development, humanitarian assistance, social work, education, and law

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia

    John Idriss Lahai

  • School of Law, Ulster University, Derry, United Kingdom

    Khanyisela Moyo

About the editors

John Idriss Lahai is Research Fellow at the School of International Studies, Flinders University, Australia.

Khanyisela Moyo is Lecturer at the School of Law and Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, UK.

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