Suchergebnisse

Agenda-vetting in global politics -- Networks, centrality and issue creation in global politics -- A network theory of advocacy gate-keeper decision-making -- You harm, you help: pitching collateral damage control to humanitarian gatekeepers -- From Stop the robot wars! to Ban killer robots!: pitching autonomous weapons to disarmament gatekeepers -- His body, his choice: pitching infant male circumcision to human rights gatekeepers -- Conclusion -- Appendix: studying transnational spaces: a multi-method approach -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agend

Gender, ethnicity, and children's human rights : theorizing babies born of wartime rape and sexual exploitation / R. Charli Carpenter -- Children born of war rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Joana Daniel -- Rwanda : children born of genocidal rape / Marie Consolée Mukangendo -- "Orphans" or veterans? : justice for children born of war in East Timor / Susan Harris Rimmer -- Silent identities : children born of war in Sierra Leone / Giulia Baldi and Megan MacKenzie -- Uganda's forgotten "children of war" / Eunice Apio -- Children born of war and the politics of identity / Patricia Weitsman -- Theorizing justice for children born of war / Debra DeLaet -- Children born of wartime rape and human rights culture / Siobhán McEvoy-Levy -- Key ethical inquiries for future research / Julie Mertus -- Children born of war and human rights : philosophical reflections / Michael Goodhart -- Conclusion: Protecting children born of war / R. Charli Carpenter

During the war in the former Yugoslavia, women of all ethnic backgrounds were raped and many gave birth to children as a result of this violence. Although numerous journalists wrote about the pregnancies and the babies during the war, almost no attention has been paid to these children as such by human rights organisations during or since. Given the purported agenda-setting role of the global media in drawing attention to new human rights problems, this case represents an interesting puzzle and a site for exploring the interrelationship between gendered, nationalist and rights-based frames in the global media's representations of atrocity. This article explores how these representations both figured in gendered constructions of genocide and negatively affected the prospects of human rights attention to the children in their own right.

While gender-based violence has recently emerged as a salient topic in the human security community, it has been framed principally with respect to violence against women and girls, particularly sexual violence. In this article, I argue that gender-based violence against men (including sexual violence, forced conscription, and sex-selective massacre) must be recognized as such, condemned, and addressed by civilian protection agencies and proponents of a 'human security' agenda in international relations. Men deserve protection against these abuses in their own right; moreover, addressing gender-based violence against women and girls in conflict situations is inseparable from addressing the forms of violence to which civilian men are specifically vulnerable.