Courting Gender Justice

Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-093283-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR, located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most effective international human rights court in existence. Russian citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey. Based on interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers in Russia and Turkey, this engaging book grounds the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sundstrom, Lisa Mcintosh

Sperling, Valerie

Sayoglu, Melike

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Cases: European Court of Human Rights

- Note on Transliteration

- Chapter 1: Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights: Why So Few?

- Chapter 2: What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and Socio-Cultural Barriers

- Chapter 3: Police, Prosecutors, and Ping-Pong: Legal Barriers

- Chapter 4: Whose Rights are Human Rights? The Gender Gap Between Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks

- Chapter 5: International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights

- Chapter 6: Turkish Gender Discrimination Cases in Domestic and International Courts

- Chapter 7: Conclusion

- References

- Appendix: Interviews

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University.

Melike Sayoglu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Clark University.