Amnesty International and Women's Rights: Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances

Miriam Ganzfried

book: Amnesty International and Women's Rights

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Amnesty International and Women's Rights

Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances

Miriam Ganzfried
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Volume 128 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460085

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About this book

Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally, the book demonstrates that, despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign, internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the organization's overall work.

Author / Editor information

Miriam Ganzfried (Dr. phil.), born in 1979, works as a project manager at the Center for Higher Education and Science Studies at Universität Zürich. She studied political science at Universit de Genève and did her doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Universität Zürich. During her dissertation, she worked at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the University of Bern and at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Her research interests are change processess and resistance in organizations, equal opportunity policies, and higher education management.

Reviews

»The book is a humbling reminder of how difficult it has been to arrive at an agreement that women's rights are human rights. It will no doubt serve as a key reference for tracking progress on the integration of women's rights within AI and in human rights discourse more broadly in the years to come.«
Elisabeth Prügl, Swiss Political Science Association, 25.01.2022

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	9
List of graphs Open Access Download PDF	11
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	13
1. Introducti Open Access Download PDF	15
2. Problem and research questions Open Access Download PDF	29
3. Conceptualization Open Access Download PDF	47
4. Focused literature review Open Access Download PDF	51
5. Data and method(s) Open Access Download PDF	63
6. AI’s structure, decision-making, and policy implementation Open Access Download PDF	77
7. The beginnings of AI’s interest in VAW Open Access Download PDF	103
8. The challenges to make women’s rights part of AI’s DNA Open Access Download PDF	177
9. Discussion and outlook Open Access Download PDF	261
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	281
Sources and Literature Open Access Download PDF	287
List of abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	317

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Women's Rights; Human Rights Organizations; Networks; Civil Society; Politics; Law; Human Rights; Social Movements; Political Science

eBook

Published: December 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839460085