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Gender
Perspectives on International Human Rights, Humanitarian, Refugee and Criminal Law
Furthering
its commitment to work with educational institutions to engender the
discourse on conflict resolution and security, WISCOMP in collaboration
with Lady Shri Ram College organized a three day seminar-cum-workshop
titled Gender Perspectives on International Human Rights, Humanitarian,
Refugee and Criminal Law. The workshop sought to equip the participants
with a variety of methods and vantage points to understand, recognize
and claim human rights through a gendered, yet plural lens.
The
growth of the women’s international human rights movement worldwide
and its emergence as a field of study has led to a valuable but increasingly
self-contained discourse, often cut off from developments in feminist
legal theory, on the one hand, and conceptions of the different legal
contexts in which international human rights operate, on the other.
By bringing together the developments in the areas, inter alia, of
international law, human rights, refugee and migration studies, and
international criminal law, this workshop attempted to situate women’s
international human rights in broader debates raised by feminist legal
theory and postcolonial theory.
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