[TimorLesteStudies] Book Launch (Dili): 'Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste', 13 & 15 July

[Michael Leach]

Noemí Pérez Vásquez, Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste: The Blind Letters

Book Launch (Dili)

This book delivers a panoramic assessment of access to transitional justice from a gender perspective. Dealing with conflict, justice and women, it first shows how the different barriers and discriminatory layers in the laws, policies, community and family practices that affect women in their access to trials, truth commissions and reparations, hamper women’s ability to participate in these gendered justice processes. Going beyond the focus on sexual violence and by including veterans’ pensions as part of the mechanisms of transitional justice, the book also argues that transitional justice leads to new socio-economic structures that downplay women’s recognition of their rights and produce long-term consequences in times of peace. Transitional justice may thus exacerbate the invisibility of and discrimination against women during both the process of implementation and later in the country’s reconstruction and development phase.

Inspired by the work of Hannah Arendt, with a post-colonial theoretical component and based on extensive field research in Timor-Leste, this book has larger implications for the overarching debate on the social consequences of transitional justice.

There will two book launches:

- Wednesday 13th of July from 5:30PM to 7:00PM at Fundaçao Oriente. Moderated by Antonio Sampaio.

- Friday 15th of July from 2:00PM to 3:30PM at Centro Nacional Chega!. Moderated by Hugo Fernandes.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/womens-access-to-transitional-justice-in-timorleste-9781509957637/<https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/womens-access-to-transitional-justice-in-timorleste-9781509957637>

Thanks to the Fundação Oriente for the support.

About the speaker:
Noemí Pérez Vásquez is currently a Legal Officer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e, in Dili, Timor-Leste from 2016 to 2017.

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