The Role of Social and Political Action in Advancing Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Accountability to Women
dc.contributor.author | Cornwall, Andrea | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Palestine | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Sierra Leone | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Brazil | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-06T09:55:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-06T09:55:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cornwall, A. (2017) The Role of Social and Political Action in Advancing Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Accountability to Women, IDS Working Paper 488, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-78118-372-4 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2040-0209 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12996 | |
dc.description.abstract | Through the lens of four case studies focused on women’s political participation (Palestine and Sierra Leone), and the passage of domestic violence law (Brazil and South Africa), this paper looks at the role of social and political action in advancing women’s rights. In so doing, the paper assesses how research in fragile and conflict-affected settings might be framed to examine the ways in which social and political action can effect change for women in these contexts. The paper explores change at multiple levels: within, below and beyond the state. It highlights the role of women’s organisations within accountability: in both ensuring delivery on commitments, and tracking their subsequent effective implementation. In conclusion, the paper underlines the importance of understanding the political landscape in which social and political actors operate as a constantly shifting field of action, both contextually and temporally, in which critical junctures aligning particular strategies, tactics, and actors can occur to produce politically meaningful gains. It is in the learning from these junctures on what worked and how, that research can contribute to making positive change in the future. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | UK Department for International Development | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | IDS | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Working Paper;488 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Conflict | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Participation | en |
dc.subject | Rights | en |
dc.title | The Role of Social and Political Action in Advancing Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Accountability to Women | en |
dc.type | IDS Working Paper | en |
dc.rights.holder | IDS | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | c941507f-fd0b-4fc3-9822-4b2132f61a1d | en |
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