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Sex Rights - The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002 (Paperback)
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Sex Rights - The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Amnesty Lectures
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Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays
to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as
well as under the national laws of many countries that express
their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless, as the
work of Amnesty International has shown, violence against women
(whatever their sexual orientation), gay men, trans-gendered and
transsexual persons remains an appallingly constant phenomenon,
both in countries that have an official commitment to fighting
these forms of discrimination and in those that do not. Violence is
inflicted by private actors as well as - in many countries - by
state officials, and is often justified by reference to local
customs and moral values. These essays, based on the 2002 Oxford
Amnesty Lectures, seek to explore some of the inter-connections
between human rights, gender, and sexuality. Many difficult
questions are considered. How do we understand and categorize human
rights abuses related to a person's sex or sexual orientation, for
example? Are these distinctive types of abuse, or are they both
examples of the social enforcement of 'traditional' gender roles?
Does their inclusion within the remit of human rights abuses
require us to refine what we mean by human rights? What weight, if
any, should be given to demands made in the name of particular
religious and cultural traditions which seek to restrict the rights
of women and sexual minority groups? What role does the law have to
play in combating these types of discrimination? And how far have
we come, and how far have we left to go, in the quest for a world
in which discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation is a
thing of the past? The essays in this collection - written by
internationally distinguished authors from a wide variety of
disciplines - are united in their belief that it is a serious human
rights violation unjustly to penalize people because of their sex
or sexual orientation. However, they adopt a wide variety of
approaches to their subject-matter, and tackle the questions raised
in very different ways. In consequence, they make important
contributions to academic and practical debates about human rights,
gender and sexuality. The Oxford Amnesty Lectures is an
internationally renowned lecture series that seeks to promote
discussion about human rights, whether in theory or in practice.
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