Gender & Justice
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In pursuit of Justice - In every region, there are laws that discriminate against women, in relation to property, the family, employment and citizenship. Too often, justice institutions, including the police and the courts, deny women justice.
The Legal Framework laws can play a positive role in contributing to gender equality, by ending explicit discrimination, fostering the protection of the rule of law, taking responsibility for the law’s impact.
The overall Justice Cycle must be mainstreamed to guarantee, not only a full access to the justice system, but also to guarantee equal treatment and respect of the rights of women during all the justice chain.
http://progress.unwomen.org/pdfs/EN-Report-Progress.pdf
Benchmarking National Legislation for gender Equality in five Asian Countries.The Report reviews the legal systems of five Asian countries, namely, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, assessing the the legislative compliance with articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
http://iknowpolitics.org/sites/default/files/benchmarkingnationallegislationforgenderequality.pdf
Gender in Practice - Guidelines & Methods to address Gender Based Crime in Armed Conflict - Training Handbook to assist in working with women affected by sexualized violence and gender based crime in times of armed conflict and war.
http://www.iccwomen.org/whatwedo/training/docs/Gender_Training_Handbook.pdf
Documents and case studies related to Gender and Transitional Justice
Bearing in mind that transitional justice measures should contribute to change patterns of discrimination against women; so it is clear the importance of the participation of women in shaping new system and that when “women victims cannot adequately engage in transitional justice mechanisms, an important opportunity is lost”.
A Struggle Against Invisibility: Gender Justice in the Middle East and North Africa. Transitional justice in the Middle East and North Africa: a focus article on struggle of women in the region.
Gender, Transitional Justice, and Displacement. Challenges in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Volume of the serie from ICTJ and the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement. Displacement is one of the most widespread and tangible consequences of conflict, and has been chronically high in Africa’s Great Lakes region by any standard. This paper focuses on three salient gender-specific dynamics of conflict and displacement in the region that need to be incorporated within any post-conflict reconstruction or transitional justice effort. First, the paper considers the implications of sexual and gender-based violence against women and men at all stages of displacement (prior to, during, and post displacement) and the implications for transitional justice mechanisms. Second, it looks at some of the gender-specific economic consequences of displacement and the subsequent search for durable solutions, focusing specifically on the challenges faced by women at the point of return and the relevance of gender specificities for any reparations or restitution programs. Finally, it considers the vulnerability of young men and their association with conflict, which affects their ability to safely repatriate within certain contexts.
Morocco: Gender and the Transitional Justice Process. Established in 2004, Morocco’s Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER: l’Instance équité et réconciliation) was one of the first attempts made in the Arab world to address human rights violations perpetrated in the post-independence period. It also aimed to include female victims of human rights abuse into broader transitional justice programs. This publication analyzes whether the various transitional justice processes undertaken by the IER sufficiently fulfill the gender-specific focus of its mandate.
http://ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Morocco-Gender-Transitional%20Justice-2011-English.pdf
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