On reproductive justice: ‘domestic violence’, rights and the law in India

Madhok, Sumi; Unnithan, Maya; Heitmeyer, Carolyn

doi:10.1080/13691058.2014.918281

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“…Introducing laws to "protect" women from domestic violence often do not take into account the broader social context and structural conditions beneath these disputes [28]. In 2014, local Lebanese NGO Kafa (enough) stated receiving over 2,600 domestic violence cases annually on its hotline, and that over the three years prior, they had accounted for 25 women who had been murdered by their family [29].…”

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In the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice in Lebanon

Yasmine¹,

Sukkar²

2018

Kohl J.

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Reproductive justice is a framework encompassing reproductive and sexual health and rights in a social justice lens that targets reproductive oppression inflicted through multiple systems of oppression of race, class, and gender. In this paper, we aim to highlight the importance and relevance of adopting a Reproductive Justice framework, as opposed to a reproductive rights one, in order to build cross-movement solidarities that organize against the multiplicity of oppressions and inequalities facing women and trans* persons in Lebanon. Through a Reproductive Justice lens, we analyze the points of convergence of citizenship, migration, refuge, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, access to sexual and reproductive health services, in addition to gender identity and sexual orientation, adoption and assisted reproductive technologies, and environmental justice. Mobilizing under Reproductive Justice as a holistic framework, and away from operating in silos within the confines of singular rights, connects different struggles and creates a remarkable opportunity for cross-movement building and solidarities.

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In the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice in Lebanon

Yasmine¹,

Sukkar²

2018

Kohl J.

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“…While the human rights movement more broadly has a long and diverse history in India (Gudavarthy ; Patel ), the language of reproductive rights more specifically has not become more widely adopted within public and media discourses. Many activists, particularly those at the grassroots level, have likewise preferred to frame reproductive and maternal health either within the wider remit of domestic violence or as a public health problem (Madhok, Unnithan & Heitmeyer ). This said, with the introduction of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2000, particularly number 5a and 5b on maternal and reproductive health, Indian activists and feminists have begun to focus on the language of international reproductive rights documents such as the International Consensus on Population and Development (1994) to put pressure on the Indian state to take active measures to improve access to maternal and reproductive health, particularly by women from poor and marginalized groups (Das ).…”

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“…Following the framework set out by Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (2005), we use the term ‘reproductive justice’ in this article to designate a more holistic conception of women's control over their bodies and fertility beyond their individual legal rights to reproductive autonomy (which we associate with the term ‘reproductive rights’). We are indebted to Sumi Madhok for bringing our attention to this framework in relation to our joint research (see also Madhok, Unnithan & Heitmeyer ).…”

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Bodily rights and collective claims: the work of legal activists in interpreting reproductive and maternal rights in India

Heitmeyer

Unnithan

2015

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article engages with anthropological approaches to the study of global human rights discourses around reproductive and maternal health in India. Whether couched in the language of human rights or of other social justice frameworks, different forms of claims-making in India exist in tandem and correspond to particular traditions of activism and struggle. Universal reproductive rights language remains a discourse aimed at the state in India, where the primary purpose is to demand greater accountability in the domain of policy and governance. Outside of these spheres, other languages are strategically chosen by activists for their greater resonance in addressing individual cases of women claiming reproductive violence within the context of the family as well as localized histories of feminist struggle and social justice. In focusing on the work of legal activists and the discourses which inform their interventions, this article seeks to understand how the language of reproductive rights is used in the context of India, not as a 'Western import' which is adapted to local contexts, but rather as one of multiple frameworks of claims-making drawn upon by legal activists emerging from distinct histories of struggle for gender equality and social justice.

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Numbering others: Religious demography, identity, and fertility management experiences in contemporary India

Singh

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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On reproductive justice: ‘domestic violence’, rights and the law in India

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

In the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice in Lebanon

In the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice in Lebanon

Bodily rights and collective claims: the work of legal activists in interpreting reproductive and maternal rights in India

Numbering others: Religious demography, identity, and fertility management experiences in contemporary India

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