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Gender Violence & Human Rights
2016
Overview
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific.
Publisher
ANU Press
Subject
/ Abuse
/ Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands
/ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
/ Fiji
/ Gender studies, gender groups
/ JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
/ Oceania
/ pacific
/ Political control and freedoms
/ Sex discrimination against women
/ Social groups, communities and identities
/ Society and culture: general
/ Vanuatu
ISBN
9781760460709, 1760460702
