International women’s rights
- This paper explores current contestations of women’s rights and the implications thereof for international legislation. While contestation over women’s rights is a far from new phenomenon, over the past two decades opposition to gender equality has become better organized at the transnational level, mobilizing a dispersed set of state and non-state actors, and is becoming more successful in halting the progress of women’s rights. I argue that the position of oppositional actors vis-à-vis women rights activism appears to be strengthened by two recent political developments: democratic backsliding and the closure of civic space. Some preliminary findings show how these interrelated developments lead to an erosion of women’s rights at the national level. Governments use low key tactics to dismantle institutional and implementation arrangements and sideline women’s organisations. Next, I explore the implications of these developments for gender equality norms at the national and international level. The active strategy of counter normingThis paper explores current contestations of women’s rights and the implications thereof for international legislation. While contestation over women’s rights is a far from new phenomenon, over the past two decades opposition to gender equality has become better organized at the transnational level, mobilizing a dispersed set of state and non-state actors, and is becoming more successful in halting the progress of women’s rights. I argue that the position of oppositional actors vis-à-vis women rights activism appears to be strengthened by two recent political developments: democratic backsliding and the closure of civic space. Some preliminary findings show how these interrelated developments lead to an erosion of women’s rights at the national level. Governments use low key tactics to dismantle institutional and implementation arrangements and sideline women’s organisations. Next, I explore the implications of these developments for gender equality norms at the national and international level. The active strategy of counter norming adopted by conservative and religious state and non-state actors, designed to circumvent and also undermine Western norms, is increasingly successful. In addition to this, the threatened position of domestic actors monitoring compliance of international treaties, makes the chances of backsliding on international commitments much higher.…
Author details: | Conny RoggebandORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423887 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-42388 |
ISSN: | 2509-3770 |
ISSN: | 2509-3762 |
Title of parent work (English): | KFG Working Paper Series |
Subtitle (English): | Progress under attack? |
Publication series (Volume number): | KFG Working Paper Series (26) |
Publication type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/01/27 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/01/31 |
Issue: | 26 |
Number of pages: | 24 |
Source: | First publication of the paper: SSRN https://ssrn.com/abstract=3316700 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | MS 3200, PI 6500 |
Organizational units: | Extern / Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Nicht referiert |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |