Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016)

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Gendered Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Intersecting Inequalities

RC32 Women in Society (host committee)
TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

Language: English

We know people all over the world continue to seek substantive human rights that affirm their right to build lives of human dignity. Despite a strand of rhetoric, we also know the history of organizing for human rights by people, including female leaders, from the Global South and marginalized groups in the Global North. 
In this session, we wish to showcase contemporary cases and/or analyses of human rights beyond narrow legal definitions enshrined in documents. We are interested in papers that discuss the role of women and/or marginalized groups in making claims on states, communities, and international entities in order to construct lives of human dignity, the challenges they face in organizing for rights, and/or thinking about substantive human rights and their application and accessibility in different contexts. 
While we will feature papers that fit this larger theme of gendered rights and human dignity, we are specifically interested in papers that reflect the contentious politics between states, corporations, INGOs, NGOs, and marginalized groups and communities over critical resources such as water, environment, food, and other resources that threaten the survival of many groups in the 21st century, even as their rights to these resources are being written into UN conventions. Posters: