Transformations of gender, sexuality and citizenship in Southeast Europe: New lenses for new, and not so new, times

Helms, Elissa

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.08.007

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“…After the war many of these groups continued to work and "new groups were formed, in order to meet the needs of foreign donors that came to the region to assist its reconstruction and democratization" (Popov-Momčinović 2013:145). With the support of international donors, these women's groups have undergone a professionalization (e.g., Cockburn 2013;Helms 2015;Popov-Momčinović 2013) and more WCSOs emerged. Over the years, WCSOs became a crucial actor advocating gender equality and women's rights and they still play an important role in the processes of law harmonization, raising awareness, monitoring, and assisting authorities for the successful implementation of the international conventions (Regulska and Grabowska 2013).…”

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Women’s civil society organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina as local agents of international conventions on women’s rights. An analysis of challenges related to the process of norm diffusion

Momčinović

Meier

2022

sozialpolitik.ch

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Women’s rights have increasingly become an international concern and various in-ternational conventions on women’s rights came into being in the last decades. Bosnia-Herzegovina has signed and ratified all important international conven-tions relating to women’s rights, whereas the numerous women's civil society organ-izations continue to advocate for the proper implementation of conventions while helping women to claim their rights guaranteed in these conventions and locally enacted laws on gender equality. This article, based on interviews conducted be-tween August 2020 and June 2021 with members of women's civil society organiza-tions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, takes a closer look at the process of norm diffusion. In particular, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of the processes of norm implementation and the related challenges from the perspective of women’s civil society organizations in the specific context of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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confidence: 99%