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1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Gender violence and human rights in the Western Pacific / Aletta Biersack and 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 and 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. |
| Summary |
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, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women's and girls' rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women's rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. |
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English. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- Fiji.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Papua New Guinea.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Vanuatu.
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Women's rights -- Fiji.
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Women's rights -- Papua New Guinea.
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Women's rights -- Vanuatu.
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Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Fidji.
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Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
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Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Vanuatu.
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Femmes -- Droits -- Fidji.
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Femmes -- Droits -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
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Femmes -- Droits -- Vanuatu.
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Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
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Fiji.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Gender studies: women.
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Human rights.
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Melanesia.
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Oceania.
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Papua New Guinea.
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Political control and freedoms.
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Politics and government.
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Social groups.
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Social issues and processes.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Violence in society.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Sex discrimination against women
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Women's rights
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Fiji https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdwRTwxhYwgKWpwd8jYP
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Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
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Vanuatu https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvhrQ8PGtxP9VWJFKth73
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| Indexed Term |
Gender violence |
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Human rights |
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Pacific |
| Added Author |
Biersack, Aletta.
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Jolly, Margaret, 1949-
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Macintyre, Martha.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Biersack, Aletta . Gender Violence & Human Rights : Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2016 9781760460709 |
| ISBN |
9781760460716 (electronic bk.) |
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1760460710 (electronic bk.) |
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1760460702 |
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9781760460709 |
| Standard No. |
10.22459/GVHR.12.2016 doi |
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AU@ 000059996501 |
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GBVCP 1008668044 |
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