Rights Adrift
Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Women on the Andaman Sea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21703243 |
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| Authors | Natasha Yacoub (0009-0006-1433-4855, Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR (on leave); Affiliate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW; former Member, Refugee Review Tribunal Australia, [email protected]), Nikola Errington (Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR, [email protected]), Wai Wai Nu (Founder & Executive Director, Women Peace Network, Myanmar, [email protected]), Alexandra Robinson (0009-0002-3222-0203, GBV Advisor, UNFPA; PhD student in the College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-114 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-1906 • E-ISSN: 1571-8158 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718158-22010006 |
| OpenAlex | W3169501930 |
| Language | EN |
Women fleeing Myanmar in 2015 were trapped on the Andaman Sea for months when States in the region closed off places of disembarkation. Among the horrors of starvation and unsanitary conditions experienced on the boats, they faced additional risks of sexual violence. These women fled from a situation in Myanmar that severely curtailed their rights, including gender violence, which is being tried as genocide at the International Court of Justice, and were exposed to further violations while fleeing. Through interviews with survivors of the journey and those who assisted them, this article describes the experiences of these women at sea. It outlines the failure of States to apply customary principles of international law and related regional standards to protect these women. From a feminist legal theory perspective, it explores the reasons for these failures and recommends reforms to guarantee better protection at sea for women in the future
Criminology · Economic Justice · Genocide · Human rights · International court · International law · Political science · Public international law · Sexual violence · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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