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Recognizing the fact that policy decisions have differentiated outcomes on men and women is the f... more Recognizing the fact that policy decisions have differentiated outcomes on men and women is the first step to promoting a gender equal environment which, in turn catalyses sustainable economic development. Gender mainstreaming, as a concept, emerges from this recognition – policies have gender differentiated outcomes and thus, gender differences shape policy processes. This concept was established as a global strategy to achieve gender equality in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action ratified by all United Nations member states. It is now incumbent upon nation-states and international organizations to carry out gender mainstreaming. Since then, there has been mainly three sets of people who have helped carry forward the discussion on gender mainstreaming: scholars, feminist policymakers and feminist activists. One of the major participants who constitute the political link to policymakers are the feminist and gender equality activist movements witnessing high mass participation from...
India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
India’s relations with its neighbours in the maritime domain have received less scholarly attenti... more India’s relations with its neighbours in the maritime domain have received less scholarly attention. Those studies that deal with India’s relations with its South Asian neighbours generally touch on political security, socio-cultural and economic issues. The maritime aspect is either ignored or tucked in as a part of other dimensions. The present study attempts to fill the gap in the literature by taking up the case of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is chosen as a case, not only because the island state is India’s closest maritime neighbour but also due to the existence of deep interactions between the two countries in diverse fields both at governmental and non-governmental levels. In the maritime domain, in the present context, technically speaking, there is no problem between the two countries. However, the fishermen issue remains one of the issues principally because of the Tamil Nadu factor. Analysing the issue in five phases, the study argues for a ‘comprehensive approach’ for its settl...
Recognizing the fact that policy decisions have differentiated outcomes on men and women is the f... more Recognizing the fact that policy decisions have differentiated outcomes on men and women is the first step to promoting a gender equal environment which, in turn catalyses sustainable economic development. Gender mainstreaming, as a concept, emerges from this recognition – policies have gender differentiated outcomes and thus, gender differences shape policy processes. This concept was established as a global strategy to achieve gender equality in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action ratified by all United Nations member states. It is now incumbent upon nation-states and international organizations to carry out gender mainstreaming. Since then, there has been mainly three sets of people who have helped carry forward the discussion on gender mainstreaming: scholars, feminist policymakers and feminist activists. One of the major participants who constitute the political link to policymakers are the feminist and gender equality activist movements witnessing high mass participation from...
India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
India’s relations with its neighbours in the maritime domain have received less scholarly attenti... more India’s relations with its neighbours in the maritime domain have received less scholarly attention. Those studies that deal with India’s relations with its South Asian neighbours generally touch on political security, socio-cultural and economic issues. The maritime aspect is either ignored or tucked in as a part of other dimensions. The present study attempts to fill the gap in the literature by taking up the case of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is chosen as a case, not only because the island state is India’s closest maritime neighbour but also due to the existence of deep interactions between the two countries in diverse fields both at governmental and non-governmental levels. In the maritime domain, in the present context, technically speaking, there is no problem between the two countries. However, the fishermen issue remains one of the issues principally because of the Tamil Nadu factor. Analysing the issue in five phases, the study argues for a ‘comprehensive approach’ for its settl...