Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

Author(s): UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner

Access to this link connects to the annual reports and up-to –date highlights on violence against women worldwide by the UN Special Rapporteur on gender-based violence. Includes Annual Reports; country visits; relevant publications and documents; consultations with civil society; links about cooperation between global and regional initiatives; and existing legal frameworks amongst many other information.

Available online at:

https://ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/SRWomenIndex.aspx

From Commitment to Action: Policies to End Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author(s): UN Women, and UNDP

2017, pp. 85

The report identifies the progress made by institutional approaches to tackling violence against women in the region. It also presents positive experiences that occurred in some states in the areas of prevention, care, punishment, and reparation for violence against women and provides recommendations to address the obstacles that prevents the full implementation of measures tackling violence against women in the Latin America. It provides an important resource for many countries in the process of formulating, implementing and evaluating their own public policies and plans.

16 Days of Activism

Author(s): UN Women

2018

A comprehensive report on the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign held from 25 November 2018 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December 2018 (Human Rights Day) to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. The report provides links to previous years’ campaigns.

Available online at:

http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action/16-days-of-activism

Repeal the 8th

Editor(s): Una Mulally

Unbound, London, 2018, pp. 224

A collection of stories, essays, poems and photographs recalling the movement that advocated reproductive rights in Ireland up to the May 2018 referendum.

From Commitment to Action: Policies to End Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author(s): UNDP

UNDP and UN Women, Panama, 2017, pp. 85

The report identifies the progress made by institutional approaches to tackling violence against women in the region. It also presents examples in some states in the areas of prevention, care, punishment, and reparation for violence against women and provides recommendations to address the obstacles that prevent the full implementation of measures tackling violence against women in the Latin America. It provides an important resource for many countries in the process of formulating, implementing and evaluating their own public policies and plans.

The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and our Response: The US Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

Author(s): US Bishops

CTS/SPCK, London, 1983, pp. 34

Influential Catholic document. Argues that ‘a justifiable use of force must be both discriminatory and proportionate’ and that ‘certain aspects of both US and Soviet strategies fail both tests’. Urged greater consideration of nonviolent means of resistance whilst upholding the right of governments to conscript (with provision for general or selective objection).

Consumer boycotts as instruments for structural change

Author(s): Valentin Beck

In: Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 36, No 4, 2018, pp. 543-559

The author notes that consumer boycotts are frequently adopted as a means of protest, especially in the digital age, to put pressure on corporations to improve their practices on a wide range of moral issues. Valentin argues that such boycotts are legitimate and can be effective and suggests criteria campaigners should adopt, such as proportionality and transparency.

Campaigners demand action after January surge in femicide

Author(s): Valentina Iricibar

In: Buenos Aires Times, 2019

Report on the initiative of the Argentinian feminist organisation ‘Mujeres de la Matria Latinoamericana’ (MuMaLá) to call on the government to declare a national emergency after 27 confirmed femicides occurred between January and February 2019. The organisation has also submitted a petition highlighting the educational and legislative steps to take in order to reduce this form of violence. 

Available online at:

http://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/campaigners-demand-action-after-january-surge-in-femicides.phtml

Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks

Author(s): Valentine Moghadam

John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, 2005, pp. 272

Explores pressures of globalization on women and reactions against it and rise of transnational networks, such as DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), WEDO (Women’s Economic and Development Organization), SIGI (Sisterhood is Global Institute) and WLUML (Women Living Under Muslim Laws).

Sexual Harassment and Assault in Domestic Work: An Exploration of Domestic Workers and Union Organizers in Brazil

Author(s): Valeria Ribeiro

In: Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol 24, No 2, 2018, pp. 388-405

This article uses interviews with domestic workers and union organizers to investigate this issue in relation to the conditions that characterize domestic work and the racism and sexism in Brazilian society. The author argues that it is closely linked to the country’s slave-owning past and that women’s silence in relation to their experiences of sexual assault should be interpreted as a form of agency and resilience within a broader context of social oppression.

Pax: The History of a Catholic Peace Society in Britain 1936-1971

Author(s): Valerie Flessati

2 volumes, University of Bradford, PhD Thesis, Bradford, 1991, pp. 535

Detailed historical study of both Pax and the Catholic element in the British peace movement. Pax from the outset opposed war under modern conditions as contrary to traditional just war teaching, a stance underlined by the development of nuclear weapons. Influenced Catholic thinking about modern war and the decision of the Second Vatican Council to recognize the right to conscientious objection and to call upon states to make provision for it.

What's sex got to do with it?

(part of 'The Big Story' on Brazil')

Author(s): Vanessa Baird

In: New Internationalist, 2017, pp. 21-22

Examines how women's rights are under attack since the ousting of President Dilma Rouseff, with scrapping of Ministry of Women and the Ministry on Racial Equality, and notes the Siempre Viva Feminist Organization opposition to dismantling government bodies to protect LGBT+ people.  The article also discusses the prevalence of rape culture, and the general impact on women of race and class. Notes growing cultural movement of women of colour, and prominent role of women's movement in protests against Temer's presidency. 

Available online at:

https://newint.org/features/2017/10/01/brazil-women-sexual-minorities

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