This paper will explore family law's legal pluralism from the perspective of judges and imam... more This paper will explore family law's legal pluralism from the perspective of judges and imams in Ontario and Quebec. In a context where community based justice remains available but controversial, the practices of legal pluralism are still largely unknown. How do judges ...
Conflict has displaced 1.5 million Syrians to Lebanon and within this context, child marriage has... more Conflict has displaced 1.5 million Syrians to Lebanon and within this context, child marriage has reportedly increased. We present a thematic intersectionality analysis of focus group discussions e...
The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the pr... more The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased among displaced Syrian families. This study explores the underlying factors contributing to child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the goal of informing community-based strategies to address the issue. In July-August 2016, trained interviewers collected self-interpreted stories in Lebanon using Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker, a mixed-method data collection tool. Participants included married and unmarried Syrian girls, Syrian parents as well as married and unmarried men. Each participant shared a story about the experiences of Syrian girls and then interpreted the story by plotting their perspectives on a variety of questions. Patterns in the responses were analysed in SPSS and the accompanying qualitative narratives were reviewed to facilitate interpretation of the quantitative results. 1422 self-interpreted stories from...
Current Opinion in Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2019
Child marriage is associated with adolescent pregnancy, which increases maternal and child health... more Child marriage is associated with adolescent pregnancy, which increases maternal and child health risks and rates of child marriage have increased among families affected by the Syrian conflict. Although contraception reduces these risks, data about contraception practices among Syrian child brides is sparse. This cross sectional, descriptive pilot study examined contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, barriers, needs and practices among young Syrian brides. A convenience sample of female Syrian refugees aged 13-25 who had married before the age of 18 was recruited through a civil society organization in Lebanon. Among the 32 participants, there were significant knowledge gaps and negative attitudes towards contraception, with approximately one fifth of participants (18.8%) unaware of contraceptive methods and 84.4% unaware of emergency contraception. Negative attitudes towards contraception were common, including beliefs that it was physically harmful (47.0%), contradicted religious vi...
The March 2016 Confirmation of Charges Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Cri... more The March 2016 Confirmation of Charges Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court in Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen characterized the practice of forced conjugal association as the crime against humanity of ‘other inhumane acts’. This decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber comes amidst an unsettled jurisprudence on the legal characterization of the practice of forced conjugal association. The unsettled nature of the jurisprudence has led to inconsistencies in the legal characterization of forced conjugal association as either forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’ or sexual slavery, a variant of the general rubric of slavery. Accordingly, this article analyses the expressive effects of the labelling by contemporary international criminal courts and tribunals of forced conjugal association as either forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’ or slavery.
... complied with.17 Most universalists also express dismay at the apparent critical paralysis an... more ... complied with.17 Most universalists also express dismay at the apparent critical paralysis and ... is said to imply.18 Feminists writing about women!s international human rights express concern ... and often rely upon one of these above defences when considering cultural relativism. ...
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane,... more With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation.
The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status.
This paper will explore family law's legal pluralism from the perspective of judges and imam... more This paper will explore family law's legal pluralism from the perspective of judges and imams in Ontario and Quebec. In a context where community based justice remains available but controversial, the practices of legal pluralism are still largely unknown. How do judges ...
Conflict has displaced 1.5 million Syrians to Lebanon and within this context, child marriage has... more Conflict has displaced 1.5 million Syrians to Lebanon and within this context, child marriage has reportedly increased. We present a thematic intersectionality analysis of focus group discussions e...
The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the pr... more The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased among displaced Syrian families. This study explores the underlying factors contributing to child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the goal of informing community-based strategies to address the issue. In July-August 2016, trained interviewers collected self-interpreted stories in Lebanon using Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker, a mixed-method data collection tool. Participants included married and unmarried Syrian girls, Syrian parents as well as married and unmarried men. Each participant shared a story about the experiences of Syrian girls and then interpreted the story by plotting their perspectives on a variety of questions. Patterns in the responses were analysed in SPSS and the accompanying qualitative narratives were reviewed to facilitate interpretation of the quantitative results. 1422 self-interpreted stories from...
Current Opinion in Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2019
Child marriage is associated with adolescent pregnancy, which increases maternal and child health... more Child marriage is associated with adolescent pregnancy, which increases maternal and child health risks and rates of child marriage have increased among families affected by the Syrian conflict. Although contraception reduces these risks, data about contraception practices among Syrian child brides is sparse. This cross sectional, descriptive pilot study examined contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, barriers, needs and practices among young Syrian brides. A convenience sample of female Syrian refugees aged 13-25 who had married before the age of 18 was recruited through a civil society organization in Lebanon. Among the 32 participants, there were significant knowledge gaps and negative attitudes towards contraception, with approximately one fifth of participants (18.8%) unaware of contraceptive methods and 84.4% unaware of emergency contraception. Negative attitudes towards contraception were common, including beliefs that it was physically harmful (47.0%), contradicted religious vi...
The March 2016 Confirmation of Charges Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Cri... more The March 2016 Confirmation of Charges Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court in Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen characterized the practice of forced conjugal association as the crime against humanity of ‘other inhumane acts’. This decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber comes amidst an unsettled jurisprudence on the legal characterization of the practice of forced conjugal association. The unsettled nature of the jurisprudence has led to inconsistencies in the legal characterization of forced conjugal association as either forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’ or sexual slavery, a variant of the general rubric of slavery. Accordingly, this article analyses the expressive effects of the labelling by contemporary international criminal courts and tribunals of forced conjugal association as either forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’ or slavery.
... complied with.17 Most universalists also express dismay at the apparent critical paralysis an... more ... complied with.17 Most universalists also express dismay at the apparent critical paralysis and ... is said to imply.18 Feminists writing about women!s international human rights express concern ... and often rely upon one of these above defences when considering cultural relativism. ...
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane,... more With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation.
The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status.
Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a key source of both popular fascin... more Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a key source of both popular fascination and political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial. The widely held notion that anti-slavery is one of those rare issues that "transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests. This must change.
By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, this book will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements.
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The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status.
The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status.
By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, this book will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements.
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