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0000-0003-2909-2909
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Deakin University
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 12-2018
Abstract: International civil society has played a key role in shaping the international consensus which has facilitated the normative expansion of international law to accommodate abuses experienced by women. We examine this process of ‘feminisation’ with reference to the extent to which international law has accommodated women's lived experiences of violence and their struggle to secure the means to control their own fertility through access to reproductive health services, including abortion. While the movement to recognise violence against women as a human rights issue has garnered substantial support, the efforts of women's groups to advance consensus around reproductive rights, and particularly the right of safe access to abortion, have been highly contested. Conservative religious actors have mobilised to obstruct consensus at the international level and taken direct action at the local level to impede access to abortions. This direct action will be examined through a case study drawing on empirical research conducted in Australia. We will examine the activities of anti-abortion protest groups, their impact on the rights of others and the effectiveness of legislation put in place to restrict these activities within the radius of designated geographic zones. The consistency of these legislative regimes with international norms is evaluated within the framework of feminisation of international law.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1037969X221132565
Abstract: This article examines the overturning of the landmark US Supreme Court decision of Roe v Wade, the precedent which conferred federal constitutional protection on the right to abortion. It looks at the US anti-abortion movement which worked for decades to overturn Roe v Wade and the degree to which Australian law is vulnerable to its influence.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 27-11-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JRS/FEP040
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2020
Abstract: Empathy is the ability to experience affective and cognitive states of another person, whilst maintaining a distinct self, in order to understand the other. It is a multidimensional phenomenon, ranging from vicarious distress to near complete understanding, with many shades in between. As an almost universal and integral human construct, empathy has been considered in many disciplines and contexts, from evolution to gender, politics, economics, ethics, human rights and neuroscience. Each of these disciplines offers a range of definitions of empathy, and provides unique insights into the role of empathy in achieving different types of social outcomes, including those with both prosocial and antisocial intentions. The conceptualization generated from interdisciplinary perspectives is important because it allows us to identify commonalities that could be mobilized synergistically to achieve greater social benefit through prosocial empathy. This review discusses the benevolent and malevolent manifestations of empathy from the perspective of social, legal and psychological sciences in order to lay the foundation for a theoretical discussion on the potential of harnessing prosocial empathy to advance equality and non-discrimination.
Publisher: Monash University
Date: 2019
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-10-2021
DOI: 10.1177/0067205X211039890
Abstract: This article examines the High Court of Australia’s treatment of the concept of dignity as both a value animating the implied freedom of political communication and as a legitimate reason to limit the exercise of that freedom. It does so through the lens of Clubb v Edwards, Preston v Avery, where the Court found that laws establishing safe access zones around abortion clinics were compatible with the implied freedom. The use of dignity as a prism through which to view the interests at stake in both abortion and speech cases is a familiar feature of developments abroad, and the Court has laid the foundations for recognition of dignity as one of the axiological bases of the implied freedom in a manner that generally emphasises in idual autonomy over other conceptions of dignity that might be described as operating as a constraint on behaviour to protect other interests. Yet, while the Court has used dignity as the common measure with which to commensurate competing claims, it has yet to convincingly address concerns regarding incommensurability that attend the balancing stage of proportionality review, not to mention the potential objection that its reliance on dignity is not properly grounded in the text and structure of the Constitution. In light of these issues, the role of dignity ought to be tethered to its central role in facilitating political participation so as to more clearly link the concept to the text and structure of the Constitution, and to identify what is at stake when women’s ability to access reproductive health care is impaired or denied.
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2019
Funder: Australian Government
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