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Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

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{G} ender considerations should be integrated throughout all TJ initiatives. Ensuring gender justice means not only challenging impunity for sexual and gender-based violence but also ensuring women’s equal access to redress for human rights violations and abuses and involvement in post-conflict reform. (United States Department of State, 2016)

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  1. School of Law, Ulster University, Derry, UK

    Khanyisela Moyo

  2. School of Humanities, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia

    John Idriss Lahai

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    Khanyisela Moyo

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Moyo, K., Lahai, J.I. (2018). Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice. In: Lahai, J., Moyo, K. (eds) Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54202-7_1

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