Gender Violence and Human Rights : Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

Intro -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: Gender Violence and Human Rights in the Western Pacific -- Villages, Violence and Atonement in Fiji -- 'Lost in Translation': Gender Violence, Human Rights and Women's Capabilities in Fiji -- Men's Matters: Changing Masculine Identities in Papua New Guinea -- Proclivity and Prevalence: Accounting for the Dynamics of Sexual Violence in the Response to HIV in Papua New Guinea -- Sorcery Talk, Gender Violence and the Law in Vanuatu -- Translating and Internalising International Human Rights Law: The Courts of Melanesia Confront Gendered Violence -- Human Rights Work in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu -- 'When She Cries Oceans': Navigating Gender Violence in the Western Pacific -- Contributors.

This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence.

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