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Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally, the book demonstrates that, despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign, internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the organization's overall work.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 December 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660081
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
»The book is a humbling reminder of how difficult it has been to arrive at an agreement that women's rights are human rights. It will no doubt serve as a key reference for tracking progress on the integration of women's rights within AI and in human rights discourse more broadly in the years to come.«
Miriam Ganzfried (Dr. phil.), born in 1979, is a political scientist and works at the Center for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She studied political science and gender studies at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich. During her dissertation, she worked at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern and at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Her research interests are change processes and resistances in organizations, equal opportunity policies and higher education management.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of figures 9
List of graphs 11
Acknowledgements 13
1. Introducti 15
2. Problem and research questions 29
3. Conceptualization 47
4. Focused literature review 51
5. Data and method(s) 63
6. AI's structure, decision-making, and policy implementation 77
7. The beginnings of AI's interest in VAW 103
8. The challenges to make women's rights part of AI's DNA 177
9. Discussion and outlook 261
Appendix 281
Sources and Literature 287
List of abbreviations 317