POL SCI 123S Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Marital Rape, Gender Analysis
13 Apr 2018
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Watch maria de penha"s ted talk about her story and the law that was created and named after her: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=trsftdabbvs. Opuz and maria both had to wait a long time for justice (20 years for maria and 6 years and her mother dying for opuz) Opuz (dropped the charges) vs. maria (pursued the case relentlessly, but appeal system let her down) Esp with the law named after her. Different failures of government before the case/ implementation failures. No infrastructure to provide help and protection to women. Brazil: law build on the idea of the person as a man rather than woman. Lack of protection for women in the law. Ngo filling in for the state/ international community"s role. State as primary addressee having failed, international community steps in (like the ngos) Ngo can only act as promotional regime - make recommendations.
