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Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
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‘Confession of Law?’: A Critical Perspective on the Production of the Child Subject in Hong Kong Law Controlling Child Sexual Abuse
Since the year 2000, the ‘child’ has been a primary focus of legal development in Hong Kong. Besides the two proposals made by the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission in relation to child abuse, the Government has...
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Beyond Colonialism (2): Deconstruction of Han-Chinese Traditional (Alternative) Socio-legal Culture
In Chap. 1, the focus of my analysis was on destabilizing the mainstream interpretation 汉族华人 traditional socio-legal culture, by introducing the philosophy of Xun Zi 荀子, an ‘alternative’ Confucian and his fo...
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Un/Controlling Desire, Becoming Others: Negotiating Justice in the Hong Kong Milieu of the Mainland Pregnant Women Influx
Since March increasing number of Mainland pregnant women using Hong Kong’s obstetrics services has ignited/brought to the surface the continuing (yet implicit) conflict .
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Desiring Justice, Acting Anātman: Transforming the Legal Transsexual Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophies
13 May 2013, was delivered by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. According to the decision , although the current Marriage Reform Ordinance (Cap 178 LHK) in Hong Kong only allows opposite sex (not esse...
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Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian/Deleuzian/Lao Zi’s Perspective on Hong Kong Law Reform on Sexual Offences
The ripple effect caused by the landmark (2004) has been far-reaching and significant in its impact: in 2006, the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission set (‘the Sub-Committee’ hereafter); in the next four years...
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Beyond Colonialism (1): Destablization of Han-Chinese Traditional Socio-legal Culture
In 2005, the court in Leung William Roy v Secretary for Justice decided that the legal control of (man with man) sodomy in Hong Kong violates the Basic Law (the mini constitution of Hong Kong) and the Bill of Rig...
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A Hybrid of Harmony and Resistance at the Margin: Articulating a Theory of Justice in Hong Kong Han-Chinese Culture
In Chaps. 1 and 2, I Euro-American socio-legal concepts and related legal reform strategies (like ) are the policies by which sexual/gender justice can be re-constructed in the ontext of Hong Kong, a p...
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Simularizing Vijñāna and Desire, Reproducing yi and Justice: Osmotic Production of Justice in the Condition of Hong Kong’s Anti Domestic Violence Law
Between 2007 and 2009, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed a series of amendments in relation to the law .
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From the Local to the International: Domestic Politics and International Advocacy 1990‒1992
The next stage of the journey found me unexpectedly appointed as an ‘Expert’ and invited to a meeting of the UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) to present the findings of the research. This amazing ex...
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Interlogue
This interlogue is the division between Stage One of the story, of having rape in conflict named as a war crime in international law and policy, and Stage Two, when Linda joined, and we worked to have these ad...
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Survivors, Protectors, Providers: Refugee Women Speak Out from Gender Mainstreaming to the Regional Dialogues—2009–2011
As we moved forward the dangers of ‘gender mainstreaming’ as a policy solution were challenged. The numbers of refugees and forcibly displaced persons spiralled upwards, while resources and political will to r...
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Intersectionality, Identity and Refugee Women-2001–2002: ‘I Will Give You a Prize If You Can Find a Woman in This Camp Who Has Not Been Raped’
A packed chapter. Eileen becomes the Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, ANCORW joins us at UNSW, and we hosted a National Conference to review Bei**g plus Five, and an International Conference on Re...
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Refugee Women From the Margins to the Centre—2017–2020
We explain the significance of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (NYD), and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). We lobbied for a ‘Gender Audit’ of the proceedings when the strong text of the...
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The Power of Women Speaking Out: A Risk Assessment and Response Tool, a CSW Resolution and a UNHCR Conclusion—2005–2008
We were drawn into the response in Sri Lanka following the devastating 2004 tsunami. There were clear parallels between the experience of refugee women and those of women post-disaster, in particular rape, sex...
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Correction to: Anger and Despair—Naming the ‘Elephants in the Room’—2012–2016
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Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women
From Refugee Camps to the United Nations
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Opening Pandora’s Box: Rape, Sexual Abuse and Refugee Women: 1989–1990
Our story begins. In 1985, a group of Australian women attended the United Nations (UN) Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi and returned determined to respond to the urgent needs of refugee women and gi...
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Rape as a War Crime: The Road to the 4th World Conference, Bei**g 1993‒1995
In re-examining our data, we had a ‘lightbulb’ moment when we realised that men in positions of authority used the term ‘Only Rape’ to describe the sexual abuse of refugee women and girls. Realising that we ne...
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Bei**g + 5 the Never-Ending Story of Rape and Sexual Torture—1996–2000
I (Linda) join the story and describe how I became involved. Our goals were to monitor the gains made at the Bei**g Conference and influence their implementation. The next major opportunity was ‘Bei**g plus ...
