Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)

Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and children’s rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives. This book provides a gendered analysis of transitional justice as a discipline. It is also one of the first studies to offer a comprehensive case study of how women engaged in the whole range of transitional mechanisms in a post-conflict state, i.e. domestic trials, internationalised trials and truth commissions. The book reveals the political dynamics in a post-conflict setting around gender and questions of justice, and reframes of the meanings of success and failure of international interventions in the light of them. This book seeks to answer the question of what role international law has played in relation to East Timorese women engaged with transitional justice processes from 1999 to 2009. Despite the placement of women in some key decision making positions within the transitional justice mechanism, Rimmer argues that women in East Timor generally did not receive tangible and satisfactory results from the justice system in the post-independence period. She assesses what women can demand and expect from transitional justice processes, and how transitional justice models can be revised to achieve these results

This book provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and children's rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives.

Introduction : A Luta Continua! (the Fight Continues!) -- Sexing The Subject Of Transitional Justice -- Cecelia Soares Recalls : East Timor As Case Study -- Beloved Madam : The Indonesian Ad Hoc Human Rights Court -- Wearing His Jacket : The Serious Crimes Process -- Women Cut In Half : The Commission For Reception, Truth-seeking And Reconciliation And The Limits Of Restorative Justice -- Conclusion : Operation Love. Susan Harris Rimmer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Presents a feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, this book offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration.