WISCOMP
invites applications for a South Asian Peacebuilding Workshop titled Enriching
Democratic Practice in South Asia:
Possibilities from the Field of Peacebuilding on the 30 – 31 of
October, 2010 in New Delhi. Click
here for details.
Annelise Ebbe and Ila Pathak, Whither Women’s Rights? A Report from Kandhamal, WISCOMP (2009)Navanita Sinha, Democracies in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges for Nepal- A Report, WISCOMP (2010)
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.
Wiscomp
was established as part of the efforts of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility
to build a culture of coexistence and nonviolence that is gender-sensitive
and inclusive. A not-for-profit, non-sectarian, non-denominational organization,
the Foundation promotes universal responsibility in a manner that celebrates
a diversity of beleifs and practices, and that contributes to a global ethic
of nonviolence, coexistence and gender equity. The work of the Foundation
is global in its reach and transcends nationalist political agendas.
