Violence against women and economic, social and cultural rights in Africa

Dauer, Sheila; Gómez, Mayra

doi:10.1007/s12142-006-1029-0

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“…This relatively weak protection of women's social rights in Muslim countries (p < .10) is consistent with the findings of extensive case studies and research on gender in these societies (e.g. Cherif, 2010;Dauer and Gomez, 2006;Mayer, 1995).…”

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International human rights regime, neoliberalism, and women’s social rights, 1984–2004

Yoo

2011

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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World polity scholars posit that the diffusion of world culture and norms increasingly influences human rights as well as women's rights. However, previous research on women's rights and policies often neglects women's social rights and focuses mainly on women's political rights. In part due to neoliberal restructuring, women's social rights still lag behind women's political rights. This research focuses on changes in women's social rights, as measured by the CIRI human rights index, in 140 countries from 1984 to 2004. To interpret these data, I incorporate world institutionalism and neoliberalism into one single theoretical frame. My analysis reveals that the longer a country is exposed to a neoliberal structural adjustment program, the more governments' practices regarding women's social rights deteriorate. Among various linkages to the world polity, only the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) increases nation-states' likelihood of having improved women's social rights. These findings suggest that global neoliberal restructuring has a deleterious effect on women's social rights and challenge the claim that the spread of global culture necessarily leads to improvements in governments' practices relating to women's social rights.

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Section: Resultssupporting

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International human rights regime, neoliberalism, and women’s social rights, 1984–2004

Yoo

2011

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Before 1960, it was viewed as atypical and attributed only to those with psychopathological disorders or mental problems (Segura, 2008). In 1993, the 2nd United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Vienna acknowledged all women’s rights as an integral part of human rights and their promotion essential (Azkar, Sohail, Yasin, Mahmood, & Mushtaq, 2012; Dauer & Gomez, 2006). Since then, VaW has gradually come to be recognized as a serious human rights abuse with significant consequences, not only for women but for society as a whole, since it is a major public health issue with serious health costs (Al Habib, Nur, & Jones, 2010) and consequences for achieving equality, development, and peace (Tinker & Jaquette, 1987).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lack of resources caused by financial exclusion is not the only or the most important cause of VaW, but it leaves women more vulnerable to violence and less able to escape from it (Dauer & Gomez, 2006). Economic violence allows abusive men to maintain power and control over women.…”

Section: Microfinance As a Tool To Fight Violence Against Womenmentioning

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Microfinance and Violence Against Women in Rural Guatemala

Cepeda

Lacalle-Calderón

Torralba

2017

J Interpers Violence

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Violence against Women (VaW) has come to be recognized as a serious human rights abuse with important consequences not only for women but for whole societies. Since VaW has several manifestations, it is possible to differentiate among different types of violence. In this article, a broad theoretical framework with different dimensions of gender violence was adapted to a Latin American social and cultural context to measure three out of the five main types of violence: economic violence, emotional psychological violence, and coercive control. The goal of this article is to provide empirical evidence to determine whether access to microfinance services plays a role in reducing VaW. To this end, we designed and performed a cross-sectional study with a treatment and a control group in rural Guatemala. A sample of 883 rural women in the "Altiplano" area of Guatemala (448 women with microfinance services and 435 without) was surveyed from May to November 2012. The results of the bivariate logistic regression showed evidence of association between access to microfinance services and reduction of VaW. After adjusting for covariates, global, economic, and emotional psychological violence maintained a negative and statistically significant association with microfinance, while only coercive control showed no statistical association with microfinance services. Access to microcredits showed a very clear relationship to reducing economic and emotional violence but not coercive control, a factor that may be determined by social and cultural norms. In contrast to Status Inconsistency Theory, which has been tested primarily in Asia, our study of Guatemala showed that increased status and economic independence of women due to their participation in microfinance services reduced VaW.

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