More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All... more More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted. Now is an opportune time to consider whether the interventions seeking to realise CEDAW’s aspirations have brought us closer to achieving gender equality. This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesise evidence for the effectiveness of social justice, cognitive, or behaviour-change interventions that sought to reduce gender inequality, gender bias, or discrimination against women or girls. Interventions could be implemented in any context, with any mode of delivery and duration, if they measured gender equity or discrimination outcomes, and were published in English in peer-reviewed journals. Papers on violence against women and sexuality were not eligible. Seventy-eight papers reporting qualitative (n = 36), quantitative (n = 23), and multi-methods (n = 19) research projects met the eligibility criteria after screening...
ABSTRACT On 17 and 18 February this year, the remote immigration detention facility operated by A... more ABSTRACT On 17 and 18 February this year, the remote immigration detention facility operated by Australia in Manus Island PNG became the site of extreme violence. Protests and rioting by the detainees led to two days of mayhem and brutality in which at least 60 asylum seekers sustained serious injuries, including bullet wounds and machete wounds to the head and neck. One man had his throat slit and in what appears to have been a frenzied attack, a 23 year old Iranian asylum seeker was killed. I would like to explore the arrangements on Manus Island and the events on 17 and 18 February as a manifestation of Georgio Agamben’s vision of the camp as the ‘materialization of the state of exception.’’
International civil society has played a key role in shaping the international consensus which ha... more International civil society has played a key role in shaping the international consensus which has facilitated the normative expansion of international law to accommodate abuses experienced by women. We examine this process of ‘feminisation’ with reference to the extent to which international law has accommodated women's lived experiences of violence and their struggle to secure the means to control their own fertility through access to reproductive health services, including abortion. While the movement to recognise violence against women as a human rights issue has garnered substantial support, the efforts of women's groups to advance consensus around reproductive rights, and particularly the right of safe access to abortion, have been highly contested. Conservative religious actors have mobilised to obstruct consensus at the international level and taken direct action at the local level to impede access to abortions. This direct action will be examined through a case stud...
Australia’s current level of engagement with the UN human rights system is perhaps unprecedented.... more Australia’s current level of engagement with the UN human rights system is perhaps unprecedented. We have two representatives on human rights treaty bodies and two experts serving on mandates of the Human Rights Council. All four of these individuals are women and on the world stage, we have presented ourselves as a leader in advancing gender equality. This paper interrogates this self-image by looking at our international engagement and considering the way it is reflected at home.
This thesis examines the law and practice concerning two key policies directed at asylum seekers ... more This thesis examines the law and practice concerning two key policies directed at asylum seekers who arrive or attempt to arrive in Australia by boat; immigration detention and offshore processing. It is comprised of four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the thesis, consolidating the published material with reference to political theory. A summary of the chapters is provided in Part II. Part III considers the contribution maoe by my work to the literature on asylum seeker policy in Australia. The main body of the thesis is contained in Part IV, which is comprised of 11 papers published between 2004 and 2013. ·
More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All... more More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted. Now is an opportune time to consider whether the interventions seeking to realise CEDAW’s aspirations have brought us closer to achieving gender equality. This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesise evidence for the effectiveness of social justice, cognitive, or behaviour-change interventions that sought to reduce gender inequality, gender bias, or discrimination against women or girls. Interventions could be implemented in any context, with any mode of delivery and duration, if they measured gender equity or discrimination outcomes, and were published in English in peer-reviewed journals. Papers on violence against women and sexuality were not eligible. Seventy-eight papers reporting qualitative (n = 36), quantitative (n = 23), and multi-methods (n = 19) research projects met the eligibility criteria after screening...
ABSTRACT On 17 and 18 February this year, the remote immigration detention facility operated by A... more ABSTRACT On 17 and 18 February this year, the remote immigration detention facility operated by Australia in Manus Island PNG became the site of extreme violence. Protests and rioting by the detainees led to two days of mayhem and brutality in which at least 60 asylum seekers sustained serious injuries, including bullet wounds and machete wounds to the head and neck. One man had his throat slit and in what appears to have been a frenzied attack, a 23 year old Iranian asylum seeker was killed. I would like to explore the arrangements on Manus Island and the events on 17 and 18 February as a manifestation of Georgio Agamben’s vision of the camp as the ‘materialization of the state of exception.’’
International civil society has played a key role in shaping the international consensus which ha... more International civil society has played a key role in shaping the international consensus which has facilitated the normative expansion of international law to accommodate abuses experienced by women. We examine this process of ‘feminisation’ with reference to the extent to which international law has accommodated women's lived experiences of violence and their struggle to secure the means to control their own fertility through access to reproductive health services, including abortion. While the movement to recognise violence against women as a human rights issue has garnered substantial support, the efforts of women's groups to advance consensus around reproductive rights, and particularly the right of safe access to abortion, have been highly contested. Conservative religious actors have mobilised to obstruct consensus at the international level and taken direct action at the local level to impede access to abortions. This direct action will be examined through a case stud...
Australia’s current level of engagement with the UN human rights system is perhaps unprecedented.... more Australia’s current level of engagement with the UN human rights system is perhaps unprecedented. We have two representatives on human rights treaty bodies and two experts serving on mandates of the Human Rights Council. All four of these individuals are women and on the world stage, we have presented ourselves as a leader in advancing gender equality. This paper interrogates this self-image by looking at our international engagement and considering the way it is reflected at home.
This thesis examines the law and practice concerning two key policies directed at asylum seekers ... more This thesis examines the law and practice concerning two key policies directed at asylum seekers who arrive or attempt to arrive in Australia by boat; immigration detention and offshore processing. It is comprised of four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the thesis, consolidating the published material with reference to political theory. A summary of the chapters is provided in Part II. Part III considers the contribution maoe by my work to the literature on asylum seeker policy in Australia. The main body of the thesis is contained in Part IV, which is comprised of 11 papers published between 2004 and 2013. ·
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