Human Rights Dialogue Magazine (Fall 2003 Issue): Violence Against Women

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Until the early 1990s, most forms of violence directed against women were met with silence not only by governments but also by much of the human rights community. In the last fifteen years, however, the engagement of human rights activists in the problem of violence against women has risen exponentially. Why and how this change has occurred is an important piece of the history of the women's and human rights movements, with major implications for both. In the Fall 2003 issue of Human Rights Dialogue, activists, scholars, and practitioners discuss how women's rights activists are using human rights instruments to combat violence against women and, in turn, how the human rights movement is being enlarged and enriched by their approach. In particular, the magazine explores how women's advocates are challenging the public/private divide, the cultural and religious objections to granting women's rights, and the common blindness to linkages between violence against women and the deprivation of other rights, specifically economic and social rights.

Articles

• Introduction: Violence Against Women
• Rights for All in the New South Africa
• Domestic Violence and HIV Infection in Uganda
• Battered Mothers vs. U.S. Family Courts
• Expanding the Definition of Torture
• How the Seed Was Planted
• Combating FGM in Kenya's Refugee Camps
• Law: A Powerful Force
• Rape and Gender Violence: From Impunity to Accountability in International Law
• Working within Nigeria's Sharia Courts
• Small Victories, but the War Rages On
• Working within Sharia Takes You Only So Far
• Impunity and Women's Rights in Ciudad Juárez
• From Ciudad Juárez to the World
• In the Name of Honor
• A Struggle on Two Fronts
• Refusing to Go Away: Strategies of the Women's Rights Movement
• Readers Respond: Making Human Rights Work in a Globalizing World

Online Exclusives

• Women, Violence, and the Reinvolvement of the U.S. Military in the Philippines
• Unexpected New Alliances for Addressing Military Involvement and Sexual Exploitation
• Beyond Name and Blame

Additional Resources

• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: "Violence Against Women"