Ruth Rubio-Marin's The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies PDF

By Ruth Rubio-Marin

Reparations courses trying to supply for sufferers of gross and systematic human rights violations have gotten an more and more widespread function of transitional and post-conflict methods. provided that girls characterize a truly huge percentage of the sufferers of those conflicts and authoritarianism, and that ladies arguably event conflicts in a different demeanour, it is sensible to check no matter if reparations courses could be designed to redress girls extra relatively and successfully and search to subvert gender hierarchies that frequently antecede the clash. targeting issues corresponding to reparations for sufferers of sexual and reproductive violence, reparations for kids and different kin, in addition to gendered understandings of financial, symbolic, and collective reparations, The Gender of Reparations gathers information regarding how prior or current reparations tasks handled gender matters, identifies most sensible practices to the level attainable, and articulates cutting edge methods and instructions to the mixing of a gender point of view within the layout and implementation of reparations for sufferers of human rights violations.

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Php, accessed February 26, 2009. See also Kelly D. Askin and Dorean M. , Women and International Human Rights Law (Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 1999). htm, accessed February 26, 2009. See also Human Rights Watch on the lack of a consistent and comprehensive approach to rape at the ICTR in “We’ll Kill You If You Cry: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict,” Human Rights Watch Report 15, no. 1 (January 2003): 59. 3 In other recent conflicts on the African continent, widespread abduction, rape, sexual enslavement, and captivity of young women has been publicized, but it is unclear how, whether, and where this violence will be addressed.

5 Rape and abusive sexual treatment are grave criminal acts, among the grossest violations of human rights and crimes against humanity when systemic in nature. Women’s vulnerability to sexual violation, however, is but one of the threats and dangers women face as combatants and civilians in armed conflict or as citizens or political activists under repression. Women too are killed, wounded, tortured, mutilated, disabled, terrorized, forced to relocate or emigrate, and stranded in refugee camps.

These common patterns alert us to where and for what we should look in identifying violence toward women and harms women suffer. ”21 In this way men’s normative control of women becomes a means of solidarity among men allied to each other and becomes a strategy of humiliating and expressing dominance over the male opposition in conflict. When men acknowledge and endorse each other’s possession, protection, and control of women, they confirm each other’s masculinity. 22 When 20 21 22 On the gap between advocacy for women generally and advocacy for women victims, see Beth Goldblatt, “Evaluating the Gender Content of Reparations: Lessons from South Africa,” in What Happened to the Women?

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