Violence against women is an issue of human rights and global security. According to the WHO, one in three women worldwide suffers from gender-based violence. Issue 117 of Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals investigates the international roots, responses and patterns of violence against women, especially in Latin America. The papers examine, on the one hand, how the violence is shaped by international conflicts, by international political economy patterns and related social changes; on the other, the role of women’s organisations and feminist movement, and the response of states and international organisations through new legal models and public policies. The authors use a wide range of methodologies, which include ethnography, quantitative analysis, jurisprudence, public policy analysis and comparative case studies.
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2017.117.3
Introduction: gender violence and international relations
Alison Brysk
Cross-border gender violence and Guatemalan indigenous women refugees
Lynn Stephen
Feminicide in Latin America: legal vacuum or deficit in the rule of law?
Celeste Saccomano
Sexual violence as a crime against humanity: the cases of Guatemala and Peru
Jerónimo Ríos y Roberto Brocate
Gender violence in Brazil: an evaluation of the “Maria da Penha Law” (2006-2016)
Verônica Maria Teresi
Urban violence: the Latin American Women and Habitat Network (the case of Colombia)
María Catalina Monroy y Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz
Focusing on men to eliminate violence against women
Cristina Oddone
OTHER ARTICLES
A critical post-positivist studies perspective on humanitarianism
Itziar Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta
Migration relations between Cuba and the United States: incidence in Latin America
Ana María Valido Alou
BOOK REVIEWS
Armed violence, forced conscription and sexual violence
Gino Pauselli
The chance to keep the peace with equal opportunities
Pilar Elizalde
Female genital mutilation and early marriage in Kenya: the local response to global norms
Saide Mobayed
International criminal jurisprudence on gender
Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez
International development cooperation between the past, present and future: the 2030 Agenda put to the test
Davide Riccardi
Good migration management as a starting point for global social justice?
Anna Bardolet Dilmé
