Obstacles To Women’s And Girls’ Access To Justice for Gender-Based Violence In Morocco

Author(s): ICJ

International commission of Jurists , Geneva, 2019, pp. 53

The ICJ’s report explores the various obstacles that women seeking justice in Morocco face, and addresses recommendations to the Moroccan government and judiciary with a view to improving access to justice and effective remedies for women and girls who are victims of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

See also https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/03/267531/womens-day-change-morocco/ and https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/03/267573/protests-rabat-international-women-day/

Newsmaker: Svetlana Tikhanovskya and the Battle for Belarus

Author(s): Ido Vock

In: New Statesman, No 26 November-2 December 2021, 2021, pp. 9-10

This article, incorporating an interview with Tikhanovskya, the leader of the opposition to the Lukashenko regime in exile, provides a useful summary of the resistance to the rigged election in 2020 and the subsequent repression. Vock notes the ruthlessness of Lukashenko against the opposition internally and those in exile in EU countries, and his unscrupulous use of refugees from  the Middle East  to challenge the Polish/EU borders. He also indicates that the Belarus opposition, which initially did not challenge ties to Russia, has become explicitly hostile to Putin's backing for Lukashenko and more dependent on EU and western support. Vok also reports that a leaked poll from inside Belarus indicates that although Tikhanovskya has significant support, two of the jailed opponents of the regime, Babaryko and Kolesnikova, are more highly regarded. 

The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention. Ukraine's Complex Transition

Editor(s): Klaus Bachmann, and Igor Lyabashenko

Peter Lang GmbH , Frankfurt-am-Main, 2014, pp. 523, hb.

Collection of 17 essays by academics, journalists, lawyers, policy makers and activists covering Euromaidan and the election of President Poroshenko in May 2014, and also developments in Crimea, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is sponsored by the Polish National Research Institute, but inlcudes also contributions from Germany, Sweden and the USA. Thre are chapters on post-1991 Ukrainian politics, on the Orange Revolutions and Euromaidan (focusing only on Kiev).

State Sponsored Homophobia 2016: A world survey of sexual orientation laws: criminalisation, protection and recognition

Author(s): ILGA: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

ILGA, Geneva, 2016, pp. 193

Originally published: 2006

Provides global overview of LGB legislation and country-by-country summary of states that still criminalize same-sex acts between consenting adults in private. Published annually since 2006.

Available online at:

http://ilga.org/what-we-do/state-sponsored-homophobia-report/

Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain

Author(s): Imogen Tyler

Zed Books, London, 2013, pp. 224

Begins with forced eviction (despite their resistance) of about 500 travellers from their homes in 2011, and explores exclusion and labelling of a range of ‘abjected’ groups (treated as scapegoats) and denigration of their resistance. Main focus on Britain, but makes comparisons with other oppressed groups, such as those in the Niger Delta.

Gender, Feminism and Masculinity in Anti-Militarism

Author(s): insook Kwon

In: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol 15, No 2 (June), 2013, pp. 213-233

Feminist analysis of the conscientious objection movement in South Korea in which women activists challenge dominant militarized conception of masculinity.

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Editor(s): International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict provides numerous free sources of information, both about the theory and strategy of civil resistance and about campaigns using various forms of non violent protest around the world. These resources include webinars, videos, translations, monographs and ICNC blogs. The Resources Library has materials in over 70 languages and dialects, and ICNC's Academic Online Curriculum offers resources on over 40 topics. In 2020-21 ICNC collaborated with the American Society of International Law to discuss the possible role of international law in relation to civil resistance. ICNC is proposing a legal doctrine of a 'Right to Assist' democratic and human rights movements, drawing on research by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth on how far external support aids movements.

Available online at:

http://nonviolent-conflict.org

The Iraqi Protest Movement: Social Mobilization amidst Violence and Instability

Author(s): Irene Costantini

In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2020

The author argues that social mobilization in Iraq, especially since 2011, has been politically significant, but not seriously analyzed. Her focus is to investigate 'nonviolent means to promote social and political change in violent contexts', which Iraq amply illustrates.  She compares waves of protest since 2011 and concludes that cyclical violence and political dysfunction are a major limitation on the effectiveness of protest, but that social mobilization also holds out the possibility of more positive political change.

Government responses to feminicides in Latin America

Author(s): Irma Klipic

Linnæeus University, Växjö‎ & ‎Kalmar‎, ‎Småland‎ (Sweden), 2018

This thesis examines how government responses affected femicide rates in five selected countries: Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The study is a qualitative comparative multi-case study using social inclusion and exclusion theory to understand if policies are inclusive or exclusive, and if the nature of legislation has an impact on the femicide rates.

Violence Against Women In Politics: Research On Political Parties In Honduras

Author(s): Isabel Garcia

National Democratic Institute (NDI), Washington, D.C., 2017, pp. 52

This report focuses on “all forms of aggression, coercion and intimidation against women as political actors simply because they are women. These acts – whether directed at women as civic leader, voters, political party members, candidates, elected representatives or appointed officials – are designed to restrict the political participation of women as a group. This violence reinforces traditional stereotypes and roles given to women, using domination and control to exclude women from politics”, as defined by the NDI.

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