Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap?
Across Asia and the Pacific, legal pluralist systems meet both cultural norms and address injustices at the local level. What is the capacity of these pluralist systems to provide justice and mitigate discrimination against women? This article examines women’s experiences across five countries to id...
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| author | Mollica, Caitlin Davies, Sara E. True, Jacqui Eddyono, Sri Wiyanti Fonseka, Bhavani Johnston, Melissa |
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| description | Across Asia and the Pacific, legal pluralist systems meet both cultural norms and address injustices at the local level. What is the capacity of these pluralist systems to provide justice and mitigate discrimination against women? This article examines women’s experiences across five countries to identify the factors that enable and constrain women’s engagement with legal pluralist justice systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on examples of women’s individual and collective attempts to access justice specifically concerning custody, land, and violence, this article identifies three persistent conditions that perpetuate women’s inability to access justice: the absence of gender mainstreaming resources in pluralist legal systems, most notably in rural, remote, and impoverished communities; cultural and religious preference for women’s underrepresentation in decision-making; and women’s low representation in justice-related civil service positions. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:2829882023-11-17T03:39:35Z https://repository.ugm.ac.id/282988/ Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? Mollica, Caitlin Davies, Sara E. True, Jacqui Eddyono, Sri Wiyanti Fonseka, Bhavani Johnston, Melissa International Law Across Asia and the Pacific, legal pluralist systems meet both cultural norms and address injustices at the local level. What is the capacity of these pluralist systems to provide justice and mitigate discrimination against women? This article examines women’s experiences across five countries to identify the factors that enable and constrain women’s engagement with legal pluralist justice systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on examples of women’s individual and collective attempts to access justice specifically concerning custody, land, and violence, this article identifies three persistent conditions that perpetuate women’s inability to access justice: the absence of gender mainstreaming resources in pluralist legal systems, most notably in rural, remote, and impoverished communities; cultural and religious preference for women’s underrepresentation in decision-making; and women’s low representation in justice-related civil service positions. Johns Hopkins University Press 2022 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repository.ugm.ac.id/282988/1/WomenandJusticeDivide2022.pdf Mollica, Caitlin and Davies, Sara E. and True, Jacqui and Eddyono, Sri Wiyanti and Fonseka, Bhavani and Johnston, Melissa (2022) Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? Human Rights Quarterly, 44 (3). 612 – 639. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135041177&partnerID=40&md5=278f5816aec603265b92d7f343c1107d |
| spellingShingle | International Law Mollica, Caitlin Davies, Sara E. True, Jacqui Eddyono, Sri Wiyanti Fonseka, Bhavani Johnston, Melissa Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title | Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title_full | Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title_fullStr | Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title_short | Women and the Justice Divide in Asia Pacific: How can Informal and Formal Institutions Bridge the Gap? |
| title_sort | women and the justice divide in asia pacific how can informal and formal institutions bridge the gap |
| topic | International Law |
| url | https://repository.ugm.ac.id/282988/1/WomenandJusticeDivide2022.pdf |
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