CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Davidovic, Maja |
|---|---|
| Title | In Search of Gender-sensitive Remedy before International Human Rights Bodies: The Case of Enforced Disappearances |
| Summary | This thesis defines enforced disappearances as a gendered crime and chooses three case studies - namely, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala and Turkey to offer a gender reading of enforced disappearances cases that have appeared before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee. More specifically, as, by and large, men are those who disappear, and women are left behind, this thesis offers an overview of the harms these women experience because of the disappearance of their husbands or sons. Furthermore, a specific kind of activism some women undertake to represent their missing relatives and themselves before international human rights bodies is also analyzed in much details, and the potential of the reparations these international human rights bodies award to change some of the pre-existing structural inequalities in gender relations is established. Some of the questions this thesis then attempts to answer are the following: Why do the practices of these three human rights bodies differ when it comes to reparations? Have they involved gender-related specificities to the violation at all? How could this be improved? In the attempt to respond to the last question, this paper will also incorporate the criteria for gender-sensitive remedy each of these bodies could adopt within their specific mandate. |
| Supervisor | McBride, Jeremy |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/davidovic_maja.pdf |
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