Book contents
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- Part II Practices
- 5 Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
- 6 Humanitarian Intervention as an Entangled History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- 7 Mobilizing Emotions: Shame, Victimhood, and Agency
- 8 At Odds?
- 9 Innocence
- 10 Reckoning with Time
- 11 Between the Border and a Hard Place
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - At Odds?
Human Rights and Humanitarian Approaches to Violence Against Women During Conflict
from Part II - Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2020
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Book contents
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- Part II Practices
- 5 Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
- 6 Humanitarian Intervention as an Entangled History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- 7 Mobilizing Emotions: Shame, Victimhood, and Agency
- 8 At Odds?
- 9 Innocence
- 10 Reckoning with Time
- 11 Between the Border and a Hard Place
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers whether human rights and humanitarianism have different ways of intervening in violence against women during war. One possibility is that these differences are explained by references to their expertise and professional training and goals. Humanitarians tend to come from public health and want to heal physical and open wounds. Human rights actors want to bring justice, which means punishing perpetrators. But to do so requires that the victims tell their stories, which risks reopening their trauma.
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- Humanitarianism and Human RightsA World of Differences?, pp. 160 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020