| Abstract | Since the late 1990s, development institutions have inc used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This specia feminist perspectives on the politics of rights explores the strategies, and challenges associated with 'rights advocacy' in a variety of settings on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia exp dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in these diverse locations, and the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justi examine the intersection offormal rights-whether international human conventions, constitutional rights or national legislation-with the e realities of women in settings characterised by entrenched gender ineq and poverty, plural legal systems and diverse cultural norms that can co formidable obstacles to realising rights. They suggest that these sites of can create new possibilities and meanings through a politics anim demands for social and gender justice. |
