scholarly journals The Question of Women’s Rights in Russia: Retrospective and Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Еlena Аnatolievna Kranzeeva
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Economic Reality

The relevance of studying the question of women’s rights in Russia is determined by the persisting gender gap in the economic and career opportuni-ties of women, their education and health, political rights and opportunities. The question of women’s rights arose as an understanding of the women’s roles and their position in Russian society, identified the issues of social inequality associated with the subordination and discrimination of women. The author proposes approaches to solving the question of women’s rights in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The main spheres of social life, the analysis of which requires an answer to the question of women’s rights are family, work, social and political activities of women. Currently, the question of women’s rights has transformed into a gender one, which in its content concerns the social status not only of women, but also of men, it be-comes important to smooth out inequality and bal-ance roles in the transformed social, political and economic reality.

The Involvement of Malagasy Women Parliamentarians for a State of Law allowing the Development of Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
RANDRINRIJAONA MAEVA
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Equal Part ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Right

The exclusion of women is at the heart of the modern political order, despite the gradual recognition of formal equality between men and women in the exercise of political rights. The evolution of the political culture has nevertheless allowed the gradual access of women to power. Yet in the case of Madagascar, gender consideration is not limited to the integration of women in power, but several challenges lie ahead for the country in terms of women's rights. Women parliamentarians through their roles can advocate for women's rights. But the question is how these women parliamentarians advocate for women’s development rights do?Women's development requires respect for their rights, and women parliamentarians, when designing and passing laws, have the opportunity to fight for women's rights, which generally boil down to the right to health, safety and work. The aim is therefore to highlight the capacity of women parliamentarians to establish a rule of law that allows women to develop. Women's participation in the proposals and discussions of laws can play an equal part in promoting women's rights and women's development.

scholarly journals Gender Inequality in Indonesia: Facts and Legal Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458
Author(s):  
Novia Puspa Ayu Larasati
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Shared Commitment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Male Workers

the present time, the law is still considered discriminatory and not gender-just. Whereas the law should not regard gender to guarantee the fulfillment of women's rights. Women's rights are still not protected. Equality and elimination of discrimination against women are often the center of attention and a shared commitment to implement them. However, in social life, the achievement of equality of women's dignity still has not shown significant progress. So, if there is discrimination against women, it is a violation of women's rights. Women's rights violations occur because of many things, including the result of the legal system, where women become victims of the system. Many women's rights to work still have a lot of conflict about the role of women in the public sector. Today, discrimination against women is still very visible in the world of work. There are so many women who do not get the right to work. This research found that the structure of the company, rarely do we see women who get a place as a leader, in addition to the acceptance of female workers companies put many terms, such as looking attractive, not married, must stay in dormitory and so forth. Their salaries are sometimes different from male workers. Like male workers, women workers also have equal opportunities in the world of work. While there are many legislations governing the rights of women workers, it seems that many companies deliberately do not socialize it and even ignore the legislation just like that.

Whose Rights Are Human Rights? The Gender Gap between Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom ◽  
Valerie Sperling ◽  
Melike Sayoglu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
Shed Light

Chapter 4 explores the inter-network dynamics between the human rights and women’s rights communities in Russia, and how the uneasy relationship between these two sectors of civil society helps keep Russian women’s sex-based discrimination claims from percolating up to the ECtHR. We draw upon our interviews with feminist activists and human rights activists in Russia to shed light on the experiences of feminist activists within the human rights and international litigation communities in Russia. We find that the separation between women’s rights and traditional human rights networks in Russia has until recently excluded feminist lawyers from learning how to take cases successfully to the ECtHR through legal training. We compare the experiences of feminist activists and the reception of Russian human rights NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) to gender-based claims of human rights violations to the strikingly different experiences of LGBT rights activists who have found common cause with human rights organizations in Russia in trying to contest hate crimes and other rights violations in court.

Islamischer Feminismus im Iran

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golrang Khadivi
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, patriarchal, religiously oriented rules discriminated against women’s rights and changed their position in society and politics. Islamic feminism in Iran as a post-revolutionary discourse deals with this issue and, at the same time, seeks a new alternatives in the contemporary interpretation of religious norms and those influenced by religion. This work reflects on the mindset and argumentation of various social actors in the debate on women’s rights in Iran since the emergence of the Islamic Republic, in particular on the positions of male thinkers. Furthermore, using the career, biography and publications of each respective actor, the study reconstructs what they base their arguments on and from which perspective they substantiate their points of view. The mindset and reasoning of these thinkers determine their positions in the women’s rights debate on the realisation of reform. In contrast to conservatives, with their clear notion of women’s rights, religiously progressive and liberal secular thinkers place the liberation of women from a prescribed patriarchal system and the restoration of women’s self-confidence at the centre of political and social life.

scholarly journals ISLĀTTIL PEṆKAḶIṈ URIMAIKAḶ: ORU KŌṬPĀṬṬU RĪTIYILĀṈA PĀRVAI [WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ISLAM: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE]

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
M.M.A. ABDULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic

The Spiritual, political, economic, and social rights of women are discussed at various levels. However, violence and oppression against women continue to increase. The charisma of Islam on women's rights is very strong. Thus, the study aimed at examining the concept of Islam in respect of women with the help of its primary sources, Holy Quran, and al-Hadith. Based on the review of the earlier literatures, the study was conducted with the analysis of the research articles, books and internet information on feminism along with information on the spiritual, social, economic and political rights of women found in the primary sources of Islam, classical Islamic literatures and the written works of modern Muslim scholars. The major finding of this study is that although the primary sources of Islam have a history of more than 1400 years, Islam has given proper guidelines for the complete guarantee of women's rights in the modern world and women have enjoyed them in the early Muslim community. This study will be a supportive to future studies based on the concept of Islam on women.

Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Individual

There has been much recent debate about women's rights and their relation to human rights. Debates about domestic violence in Vanuatu are situated in this global frame but also in a regional and historical context dominated by the relation between kastom (tradition) and Christianity. This article depicts the dynamics of a conference on Violence and the Family in Vanuatu held in Port Vila in 1994, in terms of the competing claims of universal human rights and cultural relativism. The allegedly western character of human rights which focus on the individual and civil and political rights is often contrasted with the non-western stress on collectivities and the rights to economic development and self-determination. These sorts of ideological oppositions in international politics reverberate in domestic politics as well, and especially in those which situate women and men as subjects in conflict, as they are in many domestic disputes.

Social Issues in Contemporary Russia: Women's Rights, Corruption, and Immigration Through Three Sociological Lenses

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Zaloznaya ◽  
Theodore P. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Soviet Union

This article reviews social science research on women's rights, corruption, and immigration in Russia. Intentionally diverse, our selection of topics illustrates how the same three analytical lenses have been applied across a broad range of scholarship on the postcommunist world. Each lens is bifocal and entails a tension between two extremes. The victims versus agents lens refers to a tendency of scholars to portray their subjects either as passive victims of macrostructural and cultural conditions or as agents who adapt to survive, or even thrive, despite significant challenges. The similar versus exotic lens pits the assumption that Russia is a modern European country against the view that it is too distinctive to be meaningfully compared with the West or analyzed with Western theories. Finally, the old versus new lens represents competing views on the extent to which the institutional, cultural, and structural legacies of the Soviet Union, perestroika, and the 1990s continue to shape Russian society. The broad goal of our review is to highlight the intellectual promise of studying Russia sociologically. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47 is July 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Kesaksian Perempuan: Benarkah Separuh Laki-Laki?

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lia Aliyah Al-Himmah
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Women Witnesses ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
To Receive

The fact that the Qur'an explicitly mentions about women as witnesses, and have the rights to receive inheritance is in itself a revolutionary advancement steps promoted by Islam for women's rights in the era. This means that the Qur'an acknowledges and recognizes not only women as individuals but also women's legal capacity and rights in social life, ideas that have never been observed by Arabian society of the seventh century. In this era women were denied access to inheritance, even they were seen as parts of objects of inheritance. Islam has radically changed this tradition by elevating women to be autonomous subjects of legal entity. Although the Chapter of Al-Baqarah verse 282 mentions about the necessity to have two women witnesses to replace one male witness, this should not mean that women are inherently inferior than men in terms of their capacity and rights to legal engangement. But we should see the spiritual message of this revolutionary offer provided by the Qur'an, that women can act as witnesses in business, in public affairs. Nowadays women have achieved and showed their intellectual and social capacity to be autonomous legal subjects, therefore the paper suggests that women can be witnesses in any businesses as far as they are knowledgable about the issues.

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