Women's Voice and Agency : The Role of Legal Institutions and Women's Movements

de Silva de Alwis, Rangita

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABDUCTION;    ABORTION;    ABORTIONS;    ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT;    ACCESS TO JUSTICE;   

RP-ID  :  92761

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Global events like the Beijing Women sConference of 1995 have resulted in the creation of stronginternational frameworks that set standards for women srights around the world. Convention on the Elimination ofAll Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), theBeijing Platform for Action, and other international normsdefine the scope of universal rights for women and girls,and have opened new spaces for regional and national legalreform. Bottom-up engagement with these international lawsand institutions by local and transnational women smovements has catalyzed widespread changes in lawmaking andtransformed standard-setting documents into tools forreform. The following paper discusses four important pillarsof women s voice and agency (while recognizing that thereare others which are beyond the scope of this review):freedom from the risk of violence; freedom of movement;freedom to make decisions on family formation and thefreedom to shape policy. It will examine the ways in whichthese freedoms impact women s voice and the ways in whichwomen are working to reform law and policy to ensure thesefour freedoms are accessible to all.