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| Title: | Gender, Rights And Poverty Issues:Lessons For The Sector |
| Authors: | Harrison, E. |
| ASFA Terms: | Socioeconomic aspects |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Publisher: | Integrated Marine Management Ltd / Overseas Development Institute |
| Citation: | Background Paper for DFID/FGRP-3/ARP Workshop on :Practical Strategies for Poverty Targeted Research. Hanoi, Vietnam, 7-11 nov 2000. |
| Abstract: | In its 1997 White Paper1, DFID establishes that poverty alleviation is central to its development
strategy. The notions of gender and human rights figure strongly as part of this strategy. Gender
equality is seen as key to poverty alleviation, as are mechanisms to ensure that basic human rights
are met. These principles are also re-iterated by other international organisations in key policy
documents such as the OECD s Shaping the 21st Century 2.
The international interest in gender, poverty and rights reflects a number of related but not
necessarily always compatible concerns. Because women often suffer most from poverty and a
lack of ability to exercise their rights, it seems to make sense to consider these three issues
together. But this may over-simplify a complex reality. To avoid a formulaic approach to rights,
poverty and gender relations, a careful consideration of these complexities is needed. For
example, a rights-based approach to development is predicated on the concept that there are a
number of irreducible human rights, but sometimes we find these rights competing3. Emphasis on
women s human rights may be at odds with culturally determined rules of behaviour. The
alleviation of women s poverty might be at the cost of other members of the household. These
tensions exist because, although related and mutually reinforcing, the social processes behind
gender inequality, poverty, and the denial of rights, are different. This is an important guiding
principal for this paper. In what follows, while highlighting some of the complexities, this paper
aims to identify the questions that need to be asked in order to understand the relationship between
gender, poverty and rights. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/801 |
| Related document: | www.odi.org.uk/rpeg/fish_worksummaries.html |
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