Gender violence & human rights : seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu

Gender violence & human rights : seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu /

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, t...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Biersack, Aletta, Jolly, Margaret, 1949-, Macintyre, Martha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2016
Subjects:
Sex discrimination against women > Fiji.
Sex discrimination against women > Papua New Guinea.
Sex discrimination against women > Vanuatu.
Women's rights > Fiji.
Women's rights > Papua New Guinea.
Women's rights > Vanuatu.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Gender violence and human rights in the Western Pacific / Aletta Biersack, 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, 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.

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