Seeking Equality—Justice and Women’s and Girls’ Human Right Not to Be Subjected to Non-State Torture (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cultural climate wrapped in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny, childism and misopedia intentionally whitewashes and denies the legal right of women to name crimes of violence against them for what they are: non-state torture. It is wrong that women seeking justice for this specific human rights violation of torture perpetrated by private individuals or groups should be denied redress. Sarson and MacDonald’s work is based on 21 years of activism, advocacy and grass roots work supporting women detailing, from their earliest of memories, having survived acts of classic torture victimisation perpetrated within family relationships. By reference to the words of these women, Sarson and MacDonald name these family unit constructions as an organised co-culture whose perpetrators have functioned easily within the mainstream culture and continue to do so. They point out that these family units exist wit...

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