Global issues, women, and justice /

Global issues, women, and justice / Women and justice edited by Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert. - 378 pages ; 22 cm. - Sydney Institute of Criminology series ; no. 19 . - Institute of Criminology monograph series ; no. 19. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women's rights and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission : an unfinished agenda / Narrating women and asylum : hostile administrative-legal justice / Militarisation, gender and ethnicity in Southern Mexico / Living in the circle and thinking inside the square / Partial sites and partial sightings : women and the UN human rights tray system / Aboriginal women's struggles for justice in Canada / 'Engendering' development-centered, rights-based, equitable trade policy / Kader, compensation and justice : the need for a comprehensive analysis / Everybody's business : the privatisation of women's imprisonment / Lyn Graybill -- Sharon Pickering -- Lynn Stephen -- Nerida Blair -- Caroline Lambert -- Evelyn Zellerer -- Marceline White -- Fiona Haines and Cate Lewis -- Sharon Pickering and Michael Gard -- Global issues, women and justice / Women's rights and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission : an unfinished agenda / Narrating women and asylum : hostile administrative-legal justice / Militarisation, gender and ethnicity in southern Mexico / Living in the circle and thinking inside the square / Partial sites and partial sightings : women and the UN human rights treaty system / Aboriginal women's struggles for justice in Canada / 'Engendering' development-centred, rights-based, equitable trade policy / Kader, compensation and justice : the need for a comprehensive analysis / Everybody's business : the privatisation of women's imprisonment / Challenging international law : the quest for justice of the former 'comfort women' / All roads lead to Rome, but some are bumpier than others / Untold numbers : East Timorese women and transitional justice / Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert -- Lyn Graybill -- Sharon Pickering -- Lynn Stephen -- Nerida Blair -- Caroline Lambert -- Evelyn Zellerer -- Marceline White -- Fiona Haines and Cate Lewis -- Sharon Pickering and Michael Gard -- Indai Lourdes Sajor -- Alda Facio -- Susan Harris Rimmer.

Explores the way women seek justice through the nation-state, global process and international criminal justice mechanisms. It draws on a diversity of academic and advocate voices in examining how women have accessed justice under conditions of globalisation, militarization and colonisation.

0975196715 9780975196717

2005363685


Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in justice administration
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Criminal justice, Administration of

HQ1237 / .G56 2004

341.4858

Powered by Koha