Join us for the launch of Noemí Pérez Vásquez's new book, Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste.
This book delivers an assessment of access to transitional justice from a gender perspective. Drawing from interviews with female participants, judges and prosecutors, this book provides a deep analysis of the situation in Timor-Leste, and how justice is served amid post-conflict reconciliations and reparations mechanisms.
By raising women's experiences in dealing with the law and policies as well as the implications of community and family practices during post-conflict situations, the book shows how these mechanisms may have been implemented mechanically, without considering the different intersections of discrimination, the public and private divides that exist in the local context or the stereotypes and values of international and national actors.
Inspired by the work of Hannah Arendt, with a post-colonial theoretical component and based on extensive field research in Timor-Leste, Noemi's book has larger implications for the overarching debate on the social consequences of transitional justice.
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