Statelessness, human rights and gender: irregular migrant workers from Burma in Thailand
In: Refugees and human rights 9
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In: Refugees and human rights 9
In: International journal of refugee law, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 201-231
ISSN: 1464-3715
In: International journal of refugee law, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 482-500
ISSN: 1464-3715
In: International journal of human rights, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 319-342
ISSN: 1744-053X
In: International journal of human rights, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 319-343
ISSN: 1364-2987
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 18, Heft 61, S. 541-565
ISSN: 1067-0564
This article argues that women's organizations are central to legal aid for women in China. Chinese women would benefit if more women's legal aid organizations were developed and supported. There are currently too few such organizations, especially in rural areas. Their work challenges the public legal aid programme to develop a rights-based legal aid agenda to achieve greater gender equality through the protection of women's rights. They bring diverse women's perspectives which counter prevailing traditional patriarchal attitudes and male dominance in Chinese society. The emergence of autonomous women's organizations is also important because it helped to break the monopoly of the All China Women's Federation over women's perspectives, identities and interests in China. The article concludes that the competitive yet collaborative relationship between autonomous women's legal aid organizations and the All China Women's Federation is producing a definite and positive impact on gender equality through legal reform. (J Contemp China/GIGA)
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