Gender Stereotyping

Cook, Rebecca J.; Cusack, Simone

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“…LC v Peru does not interrogate abortion law as law that has historically drawn its impulse from the wellspring of patriarchal institutions and profusely masculine theologies that stereotype women as reproductive instruments and childcarers. 72 It does not implicate the historical criminalization of a health service that only women need as an instance of gender inequality and unfair discrimination. 73 LC v Peru adopts an incremental rather than radical approach to implicating gender inequality in abortion laws.…”

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A Commentary onLC v Peru: The CEDAW Committee's First Decision on Abortion

Ngwena¹

2013

J. Afr. law

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In LC v Peru, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held that Peru was in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women when it denied a 13 year old girl emergency surgery as well as an abortion. This commentary discusses the human rights significance of LC v Peru, especially in relation to the advancement of abortion jurisprudence in the African region. It is submitted that LC v Peru makes an important contribution towards the development of abortion laws that are transparent and accountable to women, as well as responsive to equal protection under the law. The duty of states to operationalize LC v Peru in their domestic law is an innovative juridical resource for reforming abortion laws. This is particularly so in those regions, including the African region, where the continued criminalization of abortion serves as a significant incentive for unsafe, illegal abortion.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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A Commentary onLC v Peru: The CEDAW Committee's First Decision on Abortion

Ngwena¹

2013

J. Afr. law

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“…La CEDAW afirma que para garantizar la igualdad, los Estados deben eliminar toda forma de discriminación directa, corregir las desventajas de partida a través de medidas especiales, eliminar la violencia, garantizar la "voz" compensando la exclusión política y social, y contrarrestar prejuicios, estigmatización y estereotipos (Fredman, 2016: 727). El objetivo de la CEDAW de erradicar las estructuras que sistemáticamente producen discriminación implica reconocer la igualdad como proyecto transformador de la sociedad en su conjunto (Cook y Cusack, 2011;Laporta, 2016). Los Estados deben "transformar realmente las oportunidades, las instituciones y los sistemas de modo que dejen de basarse en pautas de vida y paradigmas de poder masculinos determinados históricamente" (Recomendación General n. 25: §10).…”

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Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres = Equality Between Women and Men

Barbera

2019

eunomia

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Resumen: Este artículo trata de la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres como principio fundamental del Estado de Derecho. Se ilustran aquí las tres dimensiones interconectadas de la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres contenidas en la Convención para la eliminación de toda forma de discriminación hacia las mujeres (CEDAW). La CEDAW no se limita a considerar la dimensión formal de la igualdad o igualdad en derechos. Apunta a la necesidad de abordar la dimensión material de la igualdad, o igualdad de hecho, e indica las acciones positivas necesarias para ello. La concepción de la igualdad contenida en la CEDAW apela a su dimensión transformativa, es decir, apunta a la eliminación de los estereotipos y las estructuras sociales que perjudican a las mujeres y aspira a transformar la sociedad en su conjunto en términos igualitarios. Siguiendo recomendaciones recientes del Comité CEDAW, se señala finalmente la necesidad de considerar las discriminaciones que sufren las mujeres como el resultado de la intersección de las estructuras de género con otros ejes de desigualdad interconectadas.Palabras clave: Igualdad formal, Igualdad de hecho, CEDAW, Igualdad transformativa, Interseccionalidad, cambio social, justicia global.Abstract: This article addresses equality between women and men as a fundamental principle of the Rule of Law. The three interconnected dimensions of equality between women and men that are contained in the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are here illustrated. CEDAW does not restrain its focus to the formal dimension of equality or equality before the law. It points to the need to address the substantive dimension of equality, or equality de facto, and indicates the positive measures needed to this end. The conception of equality contained in the CEDAW appeals to the transformative dimension of equality, that is to say, it aims to eliminate stereotypes and social structures that harm women and to transform society as a whole in egalitarian terms. Following recent recommendations of CEDAW Committee, the need to consider women’s discrimination as the result of the intersection of gender structures with other interconnected axes of inequality is finally pointed out.Keywords: Formal equality, Substantive equality, CEDAW, Transformative equality, Intersectionality, social change, global justice.

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“…160 Important for our purposes is that, as it stands, the Strasbourg Court's jurisprudence does not contain any positive obligations which require the state to actively address the root causes of domestic violence. To borrow a metaphor from Rebecca Cook and Simone Cusack: 161 the Court treats the symptoms, but not the disease. There is nothing on the states' duty to promote a change in societal attitude regarding violence against women, nor is there any mention of obligations to address the widespread existence of gender stereotypes which cause this violence.…”

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Stereotypes and Human Rights Law

Brems¹,

Timmer²

2016

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as well as different human rights bodies and courts, including the UN system, the ECtHR and the IACtHR. 3 Good introductions include Charles Stangor (ed), Stereotypes and Prejudice: Essential Readings (Psychology Press 2000); Todd D Nelson (ed), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination (Psychology Press 2009); John F Dovidio et al (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination (SAGE 2010). 4 Cook and Cusack (n 2) 9. 5 Cusack (ch 2); Cook and Weiss (ch 8); Möschel draws on a similar definition: 'beliefs about another group in such terms as personality traits, attributions, or behavioural descriptions' (ch 6); Peroni and Timmer simply conceive of stereotypes as 'beliefs about groups of people' (ch 3). 6 Not every author in this volume takes the same view, however. Perlin stresses that stereotypes typify in negative ways, and that, when applied to persons with disabilities, there is no evidence of positive stereotyping (see ch 5).

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Gender Stereotyping

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A Commentary onLC v Peru: The CEDAW Committee's First Decision on Abortion

A Commentary onLC v Peru: The CEDAW Committee's First Decision on Abortion

Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres = Equality Between Women and Men

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