Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization

Vet, Freek van der; Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh

doi:10.1111/lasr.12648

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“…In addition to raising the issue of marital rape to the UN General Assembly, it explicitly codified marital rape as a type of domestic violence covered under the CEDAW treaty, demonstrating the reach of international institutions into private-sphere women's rights (Wang and Schofer 2018). 5 In line with legal scholarship on legal change (Comstock 2023;Kahraman 2023;Van der Vet and McIntosh Sundstrom 2023;Vanhala 2012), this context shaped the legal opportunity structure and made activists and world-society institutions more effective in advocating for penalties for marital rape.…”

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“…Scholars of law and society have made interventions into the global institutional paradigm by arguing that there is a complex interplay between human rights institutions, such as treaties, and courts and other legal apparatuses that can provide opportunities to make social change practically possible (Merry 2006; Van der Vet and McIntosh Sundstrom 2023). Scholars argue that activist mobilization around social issues is reflective of a legal opportunity structure that makes social change possible (Comstock 2023;Kahraman 2023;Van der Vet and McIntosh Sundstrom 2023;Vanhala 2012). This opportunity may arise even given the tension between transnational human rights efforts and local social movement actors, as global reform efforts lack the issue-and-place-specific vernacular that is of focus to local movement actors (Merry 2006).…”

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Safe at home? Examining the extension of criminal penalties for marital rape in cross-national context, 1979–2013

Davis,

Johnstonbaugh

2024

Law soc. rev.

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While sociologists have focused on the national adoption of public-sphere women’s rights such as the right to vote in elections or participate fully in economic matters, less work has examined the diffusion of private-sphere women’s rights, rights of women in the home. We address this gap by examining the cross-national adoption of laws that criminalize marital rape. Building on prior research that finds that women’s rights organizations and women’s rights focused treaties, we explore the cross-national determinants of the criminalization of marital rape. Using an event history analysis covering 131 countries from 1979 to 2013, we find support for the global institutionalist framework that contends that socialization into the global system and direct advocacy efforts of global organizations contribute to faster rates of criminalization of marital rape. Further, we suggest that these global institutionalist processes become amplified when they are focused by events that set the agenda for international organizations. Implications for world-society scholarship on the global adoption of women’s rights are further discussed.

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