Countering Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan

State-Building and Transnational Advocacy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8969544
AutoresYaniv Voller (0000-0001-6328-5857, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen46
Número2
Páginas351-372
Fecha de publicación2014-04-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743814000142
OpenAlexW2084146050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas23

The struggle against gender-based violence in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has witnessed some significant achievements since the late 1990s. A subject long excluded from public discourse in the region, it has now moved increasingly into the mainstream, compelling the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to take legal and practical measures against such practices as honor killings, female genital mutilation, and domestic violence. This article traces the sources of these shifts in the KRG's stance, looking especially at the role of transnational women's rights networks in the region. It highlights these networks’ successful strategy of binding their cause to the KRG's endeavor to legitimize and consolidate its contested sovereignty over the Kurdistan Region. In doing so, the paper addresses an underexplored subject in the literature on women's rights campaigns in the Kurdistan Region and contributes to the study of transnational advocacy as a source of normative change

Criminology · Domestic violence · Government (linguistics · Honor · Mainstream · Normative · Poison control · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Suicide prevention · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law