scholarly journals Different voices : measuring female judges' influence on women's rights issues in the U.S. Courts of Appeal.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyson E Hendricks
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Women’s Rights and Colonization in The Short Story of The Jakarta Post

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferdinal Ferdinal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Rights Issues

Right after the fall of Suharto’s regime, Indonesia has undergone tremendous changes in almost all aspects of life: political, economic, social, cultural, and possibly ideological lives. The changes bring new breaths to Indonesian future, especially in the area of women’s rights. This article discusses the issue of women’s rights in Indonesia based on a textual analysis. The purpose of this writing is to investigate the representation of women’s rights issues in some stories of The Jakarta Post, one of the most popular media which has also played an important role in popularizing and spreading such issues. Postcolonial criticism is used to see how the stories portray the issues of women’s rights, particularly gender equality and marginality. To study the issues, this analysis looks at two short stories: “Gender Equality” by Iwan Setiawan and “Street Smart Mom” by Eric Musa Piliang.  The two stories represent the fact that Indonesian women fight against colonization for their rights in some different ways, as a smart wife and a poor street mother. The stories signal that Indonesian women struggle to escape from colonization through some actions such as moving forward to the center of power by maintaining superiority against men and living their lives as they wish in spite of being poor.

scholarly journals Tejiendo espacios de participación y justicia social. Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y mujeres indígenas migrantes en Estados Unidos

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
María Aránzazu Robles Santana
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Border Patrol ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
The U.S

This article explores the importance of civil society organizations that support indigenous migrant women’s rights in the states of Texas and California in the U.S. From the ethnographic work carried out through a decolonized, collaborative, and feminist methodology, a collaboration began with three organizations from the aforementioned states. This text will detail the actions carried out by these organizations to alleviate the obstacles faced by indigenous women in the country. The article focuses on two different migration scenarios: firstly, when women are intercepted and detained by the Border Patrol, and secondly when they reach their destination. Both migration situations involve complex and operational analyses by the organizations and the affected women.

Mobilizing Women’s Rights as Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-197
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Marino
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how, during the Second World War, Latin American feminists continued to push broad meanings of international women’s rights and human rights in spite of little support from their U.S. counterparts. The women from the U.S. Women’s and Children’s Bureaus who replaced Doris Stevens in the Inter-American Commission of Women avoided promoting women’s “equal rights” because of the fraught Equal Rights Amendment debate in the U.S. Latin American feminists effectively pushed these U.S. counterparts on a number of issues, including toward advocacy for maternity legislation, which Latin American feminists asserted as a human right. The Atlantic Charter and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, which underscored social and economic rights, inspired Latin American feminists’ broad calls for human rights. Their framings included women’s rights, and greater economic security and multilateral relations in the Americas. These demands came together at the 1945 Chapultepec conference where a number of Latin American feminists in the Inter-American Commission of Women also paved the way for Latin American countries to appoint women to their delegations going to the conference that would create the United Nations.

Women's Rights Issues Among Bombay Parsis: A Legal Anthropologist's Thoughts on Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 1215-1223
Author(s):  
Sylvia Vatuk
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rights Issues

I focus in this essay on legal issues related to women's rights in the British colonial period that are discussed in Mitra Sharafi's 2014 book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, the Parsi leadership actively lobbied for laws related to intestate inheritance, women's property rights, divorce, and child marriage that were consistent with their community's customary values and practices. During the same period, legal reform movements were also underway on behalf of Hindu and Muslim women and, to a lesser extent, Christian women. This essay highlights some of the common themes in those movements and discusses, in particular, the similarities and differences in what was achieved for Parsi women and their Hindu sisters, as they and their respective male leaders traversed the road toward greater gender equality under the law.

scholarly journals Filming the Motherland: Gendered Violence and Pakistani Female Empowerment in Dukhtar and My Pure Land

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainabb Hull
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Rights Issues

The revival of Pakistani cinema in the mid-2000s has heralded several successful films tackling relevant social issues, such as national identity, terrorism, and gendered violence. Pakistani filmmakers both at home and in the diaspora are using cinema to address women's rights issues within Pakistani communities worldwide whilst challenging simplistic and imperialist western perceptions of Pakistan and its people. This article analyses two recent female-led films from diasporic filmmakers: Afia Nathaniel’s Dukhtar (2014) and Sarmad Masud’s My Pure Land (2017). Each film features female leads navigating gendered violence, patriarchal oppression, and Pakistani cultural identity to explore the filmmakers’ own complicated relationships with the ‘motherland’, expressing a sense of belonging and nostalgic affection for Pakistan whilst holding the nation accountable for upholding patriarchal cultural values, in order to reveal paths towards gender equality and female empowerment in global Pakistani communities. Positive critical reception within Pakistan highlights both the difficulties faced by filmmakers addressing women's rights issues and the desire for Pakistani social dramas, indicating new possibilities within the media landscape. There remains a lack of insight into audience reception to new films addressing women's rights issues, and future research must examine how this new cinema might provoke and inspire positive social change within real world communities and for Pakistani women around the world. Nonetheless, in the production and global critical reception of Dukhtar and My Pure Land, there is evidence of Pakistan’s slow progress and growing enthusiasm for gender equality and safety, and of challenges to oppressive western perceptions of Pakistan that lead to paternalistic and racist treatment of South Asian women. These films prioritise the need for social change to come from within the community, offering up possible role models and futures for a Pakistan that is safe and fair for people of all genders.

scholarly journals Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Protect Women's Rights

2016 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

In preparation for the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women, The U.S. branchof Amnesty International has launched a campaign to draw attention to increasingabuses of women's basic human rights around the world.

scholarly journals RIGHTS OF WOMEN DURING PRE-MARRIAGE FROM QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVES WITH CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE LAW IN MALAYSIA: AN ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Nadzrah Ahmad ◽  
Rahmawati Mohd Yusoff ◽  
Mohammad Hidir Baharudin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cross Reference ◽  
Rights Issues

Women’s rights issues have marked their spot as one of the most debated issues throughout the centuries. Whenever the issue is raised, the topic of marriage is the most highlighted concerning the discussion. Marriage is regularly portrayed as an “oppressive sphere” for women, with their rights being oppressed since the moment of pre-marriage, especially in Islam. However, further reflection on the issue has shown that Islamic matrimony liberates women, preserves their honor and place in society, and abolishes injustice when guided in principle from the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which will be examined in this research. The paper will also analyse the issue in the law of Malaysia and supported by the case law if any. In addition, reference will also be made to the opinions of the scholars regarding the conflicting issue of the rights of women during pre-marriage. Regrettably, Muslims’ misunderstanding due to cultural interpretation and mispractice of original Islamic teachings have tainted the true Islamic ideal. It is hoped that the study may provide a clear reference and guideline regarding the rights of women during pre-marriage from both the Islamic and Malaysian laws as this topic is highly significant and beneficial to numerous parties in the present day.

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