Session 3 / 6 Feb 2008

 Conventional understanding: ◦ Sex = Male, Female ◦ Gender = Boys, Girls, Men, Women. ◦ Males  Boys/Men; Females  Girls/Women  Many complexities, many realities. ◦ Transgender people (sex or gender, which sex, which gender?) ◦ Intersexual people ◦ Gender non-conformity: Does that have anything to do with sex? ◦ Sex: Genitals? Chromosomes??  It is difficult to ascertain the number of genders that are there. It is also difficult to draw simple/simplistic connections between sex and gender.

Group I & IIGroup III & IV  Explore forms of Physical/Emotional/Sex ual VAW that occur in the following contexts: ◦ Childhood ◦ Adolescence ◦ Adulthood ◦ Older age  Explore forms of Physical/Emotional/Sex ual VAW that occur in the following contexts: ◦ Family ◦ Community ◦ The State

 Gender based violence  Violence against women  Domestic violence  Patriarchy (  Feminism ( ◦ Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Anonymous ◦ The theory of, and the struggle for, equality of women. – Arvonne Fraser

UN 1945 UN Charter Equal rights for men & women 1946 Brazil – Women’s commission Sub-commission on women’s rights as part of the Commission on Human Rights

CSW 1946 UDHR Man versus human being (eventually: everyone) 1975 Int’l Women’s Year 1975 Int’l Women’s Year Conference Mexico City

The World Plan of Action UN Decade for Women CEDAW 1979 Mid-Decade Conference 1980 Copenhagen

1981 CEDAW as a treaty 1985 Third World Women’s Conf. Nairobi *VAW* 1989 CEDAW adopts General Recommendation No. 12 (VAW) 1992 CEDAW General Rec. No. 19 (GBV is discrimination, and violates women’s human rights)

1993 World Conf. on Human Rights Vienna The Vienna Tribunal The Vienna Declaration: Women’s rights as human rights 1995 UN World Conference on Women Beijing