International ‘Victim-centred’ Justice and the Crisis of Legitimacy
Who Speaks on Behalf of Rohingya Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16768171 |
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| Authors | Clare Therese Brown (0009-0003-7803-3195, Clare Therese Brown (corresponding author) is affiliated with the Department of Gender Studies at the School of Anthropology, Media and Gender, SOAS University of London, and was formerly affiliated with the University of Queensland School of Law, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia, and with the Victim Advocates International (VAI). (E-mail: )., corresponding author), Minara Islam (Minara Islam is affiliated with Education and Wisdom Development for Rohingya Women (EWDRW), Myanmar.), Showkutara Chocho (Showkutara Chocho is affiliated with the Rohingya Women’s Association for Empowerment and Development (RWAED), Myanmar.) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9934 • E-ISSN: 1477-027X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14649934261432369 |
| OpenAlex | W7154335912 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article describes the outsized influence of international human rights actors in determining how justice should be pursued for Rohingya women and explains how efforts to consult with this community have been largely limited to informing them about already-existing mechanisms, operating in accordance with pre-defined conceptualizations of justice. We argue both that current international justice processes focused on crimes committed against the Rohingya are unable to respond to the needs of female victims and that international justice mechanisms in general have been much better at engaging with and responding to international civil society than they have been with victim communities
Economic Justice · Human rights · International community · International court · International justice · International law · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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