FEMINIST ADVOCACY, FAMILY LAW AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

She is a member of the Committee of Experts of the MESECVI, which oversees the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women of the Organization of American States. [...] In the past decades, contemporary ideals of justice and the human rights framework motivated women in their struggle for equality, and they increasingly identified the family as a nexus in the violation of rights in private and public life and family laws as the legal construction of domination and subordination in both realms. [...] The process of de-colonialization radicalized and empowered “traditional” centers of power while at the same time paving the way for the rise of “Third Worldism,” which rejected the linear model of development and promoted a revolutionary and socialist world vision, thus contributing to the collapse of the modernization myth. [...] The creation of secular republics in Brazil (1890) and Turkey (1923) allowed for the adoption of unified civil codes inspired by the French and the Swiss civil codes respectively, replacing the Portuguese Filipino Code in Brazil (1916)6 and the 1917 Ottoman Law of Family Rights7 in Turkey.8 The secular, modern, and Western models that informed the new Civil Codes in Brazil and Turkey were not nece. [...] The heightening of the crisis in communal politics in the 1980s due to the politicization of family law and the increasing association of the UCC with Hindu hegemony witnessed the hijacking of gender concerns into other realms.