What happened to the women? Gender and reparations for human rights violations

Human rights violations from a gender perspective

By: Rubio-Marín, R
Published by: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), USA , 2006
Via: Eldis

This online book chronicles human rights violations against women in the context of violent conflict, with a focus on what these crimes mean to the women themselves and what happens in their aftermath. A key subject covered in the book is that of reparations to women who have suffered, and a consideration of how these procedures can take into account the particular nature of violations suffered by women, while contributing to increasing women's status as equal citizens. The book comprises seven chapters, which are:

• the gender of reparations: setting the agenda
• evaluating the gender content of reparations: lessons from South Africa
• Guatemala: gender and reparations for human rights violations
• linking gender and reparations in Peru: a failed opportunity
• women and reparations in Rwanda: a long path to travel
• gender and reparations in Sierra Leone: the wounds of war remain open
• learning to engender reparations in Timor-Leste: reaching out to female victims