OxPol Blogcast showcases analysis, evaluation, insights, and experiences from the members of the College of Oxford’s Division of Politics and Worldwide Relations (DPIR), and specialist friends from the Oxford tutorial group and past.
On this episode, we focus on how gender-based violence, probably the most devastating human rights problems with our time, manifests itself in political and public life.
OxPol Blogcast host Anastasia Bektimirova welcomes 4 friends to unpack the difficulty of violence in opposition to girls, the various kinds it may take, how the experiences differ between serving politicians and candidates, women and men, and the actions, initiatives and mechanisms which might be in place to fight it and assist those that have turn out to be victims.
With Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Particular Rapporteur on violence in opposition to girls, its causes and penalties, we focus on violence in opposition to girls in politics as a human rights difficulty, and the actions which might be a part of the mandate of the Particular Rapporteur that contribute to the worldwide objective of eliminating violence in opposition to girls. You possibly can additional seek the advice of this report on violence in opposition to girls in politics which Reem mentions, in addition to the United Nations Broadband Fee report on cyber violence in opposition to girls and ladies talked about by the host.
With Dr. Michael Drolet, Senior Analysis Fellow within the Historical past of Political Thought at Worcester Faculty, College of Oxford, we dive into awareness-raising efforts throughout the tutorial group that may assist to carry a couple of change. As such, Michael tells us in regards to the particular difficulty of The Political Quarterly ‘Girls and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination’ which he guest-edited with Dr. Agnès Alexandre-Collier (College of Burgundy).
With Dr. Sofia Collignon, Lecturer in Political Communication on the Royal Holloway, College of London, we flip to the difficulty of violence in opposition to girls in British politics, cowl numerous types of abuse and intimidation, how these are skilled in another way by candidates and serving parliamentarians, and the way girls’s experiences evaluate to these of males. On this dialog, Sofia attracts on the insights from her co-authored papers lately revealed within the aforementioned particular difficulty of The Political Quarterly and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Events.
The episode concludes with a dialog with Dame Laura Cox, a former English Excessive Courtroom decide of the Queen’s Bench Division, who led an impartial inquiry into the tradition of inappropriate office behaviour within the Home of Commons, specializing in the experiences of employees members supporting the work of the Members of the Parliament and the functioning of Westminster. The following report has knowledgeable the Impartial Complaints and Grievance Scheme that’s at the moment in place in Westminster. We cowl the report’s findings, suggestions, affect, and challenges confronted through the investigation and the implementation of the scheme.
This episode is a part of the collection Girls in Politics: Views from the Subject and Academia which explores a feminist flip in Political Science and Worldwide Relations analysis, and tries to higher perceive girls’s experiences in politics.
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