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Gender violence & human rights : seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu / edited by Aletta Biersack, Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760460716
  • 1760460710
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender Violence & Human Rights : Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.DDC classification:
  • 305.420995 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1237.5.M5 G46 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Gender violence and human rights in the Western Pacific / Aletta Biersack and Martha Macintyre -- Villages, violence and atonement in Fiji / Lynda Newland -- 'Lost in translation' : gender violence, human rights and women's capabilities in Fiji / Nicole George -- Men's matters : changing masculine identities in Papua New Guinea / Philip Gibbs -- Proclivity and prevalence : accounting for the dynamics of sexual violence in the response to HIV in Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani -- Sorcery talk, gender violence and the law in Vanuatu / John P. Taylor and Natalie G. Araújo -- Translating and internalising international human rights law : the courts of Melanesia confront gendered violence / Jean G. Zorn -- Human rights work in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu / Aletta Biersack -- 'When she cries oceans' : navigating gender violence in the Western Pacific / Margaret Jolly.
Summary: 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.
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Introduction : Gender violence and human rights in the Western Pacific / Aletta Biersack and Martha Macintyre -- Villages, violence and atonement in Fiji / Lynda Newland -- 'Lost in translation' : gender violence, human rights and women's capabilities in Fiji / Nicole George -- Men's matters : changing masculine identities in Papua New Guinea / Philip Gibbs -- Proclivity and prevalence : accounting for the dynamics of sexual violence in the response to HIV in Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani -- Sorcery talk, gender violence and the law in Vanuatu / John P. Taylor and Natalie G. Araújo -- Translating and internalising international human rights law : the courts of Melanesia confront gendered violence / Jean G. Zorn -- Human rights work in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu / Aletta Biersack -- 'When she cries oceans' : navigating gender violence in the Western Pacific / Margaret Jolly.

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.

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