Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Transformation: The Glocal from Gender

and Inclusive Perspectivesby Indai Sajour

Alameda, CaliforniaOctober 26, 2012

Are women and men equal?> unequal relations between men and women> unequal access to the rights> unequal power relations (feudal)> unequal access to resources> unequal access to spirituality> unequal access to health care> unequal access to survival (disaster) etc.

• Gender * women* men

> social construct / unequal relations/ differences

> behaviour / perceptions > power relations > roles (family, communities, nation state

building) > rights > security > privileges

> identities > spirituality > vulnerability > shift of gender roles > multiple identities ...etc..

• Gender Equality> human rights issue

> access to the rights > economic development (economic) > social & cultural development > political participation (civil, political) > leadership

> power, tension> race, ethnicity, citizenship> multiple contradictions ..etc…

Discrimination Against Women•gender-based violence•economic discrimination• reproductive health inequities •harmful traditional practices 

•Women’s empowerment> exercising women’s human

rights> right to education> political engagement/

participation> reproductive rights> lgbtq rights> citizenship / identity politics> employment

• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl“!• If women are expected to do

the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” ― Plato, The Republic "

Women’s empowerment is Glocal

• Integral – to all issues & movements• Vital – it comprise more than

50% of the worlds population• Distinct – it has it’s own

specific issues

• Women’s human rights movement is the most successful campaign ever from local to global and global to local• It mobilized women & men around the

world• It put women’s issues into the worlds

agenda• It changed governments policies and

laws

Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Transformation: The Glocal from Gender

and Inclusive Perspectivesby Indai Sajour

Alameda, CaliforniaOctober 26, 2012