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- Lindkvist, Linde, Lektor, 1985-
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Rights for the World's Children : Radda Barnen and the Making of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Human Rights. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1891-8131 .- 1891-814X. ; 36:3, s. 287-303
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) from 1989 remains the most widely ratified treaty on human rights and functions as a normative frame for myriads of actors working to promote the rights of children. The scholarship on the convention recognises that non-governmental organisations were crucial to the drafting of the treaty. Some of these accounts also single out the Swedish Save the Children Federation (Radda Barnen) as significant for facilitating non-governmental cooperation and shaping the drafting group discussions. Drawing on archival and published first-hand sources, the paper adds to the available accounts, first by outlining some of the developments that led Radda Barnen to embrace the concept of children's rights in the 1970s and become involved in drafting of UNCRC in the 1980s. The paper then reveals how the organisation engaged creatively with the concept of children's rights in the drafting process and succeeded in framing children in armed conflict and female genital mutilation as rights issues, effectively challenging some of the conventional boundaries of international human rights law. But the paper also points to the limits of Radda Barnen's influence and suggests that its creative engagement took place within a relatively conventional framework of child protection.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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1979: a Year of the Child, but Not of Children’s Human Rights
- 2019
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Ingår i: Diplomatica. - : Brill. - 2589-1766 .- 2589-1774. ; 1:2, s. 202-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the diplomatic contestations over children’s rights in connection to the International Year of the Child (iyc) of 1979. At the time, the Year was celebrated as an outstanding success, an event which helped to heighten social and political awareness of the status of children in both developing and industrialized countries, and which brought to light a plethora of new global issues, including street children, children with disabilities and children in armed conflict. Today, the iyc is frequently reduced to a plotting point in histories charting the rise of an international discourse of children’s rights, a discourse that is intimately linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989. This article shows how the concept of children’s rights was of peripheral importance to the overarching purposes of the iyc, which instead revolved around a notion of child welfare as integral to wider projects of social and economic development, either in the form of economic sovereignty or basic needs. The article then revisits the 1978–1979 UN debates on a human rights treaty for children, showing how this project initially garnered minimal support among states, international agencies and non-state actors. The article thus takes issue with teleological accounts that see the iyc primarily as a first step toward the subsequent breakthrough of children’s human rights. It also showcases how historical case studies of UN observances can be fruitful for scholars interested in the clashes and amalgamations of competing concepts and projects at an international level.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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Fördömande och förverkligande : Om förväntningarna på FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter
- 2018
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Ingår i: Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället. - Malmö : Bokbox Förlag. - 9789186980702 ; , s. 253-272
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det här kapitlet fokuserar på FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter (MR-rådet). Mer specifikt handlar det om vilka förväntningar som är rimliga att ställa på internationella politiska organ för främjande av mänskliga rättigheter. Efter en analys av den kritik som riktats mot MR-rådet från olika människorättsorganisationer, lyfter kapitlet en rad övergripande frågor om hur internationella organisationer kan arbeta för den faktiska efterlevnaden av mänskliga rättigheter. MR-rådet har precis som sin föregångare (FN:s kommission för mänskliga rättigheter) kritiserats för sin “politisering” av människorättsfrågor samt för sin selektiva användning av fördömande resolutioner. Som kapitlet visar bottnar den här kritiken i föreställningar om att mänskliga rättigheter i grund och botten skulle vara “opolitiska” frågor, samt att kritiska uttalanden från internationella organisationer är viktiga steg mot ökad efterlevnad. Kapitlet avslutas med att plädera för att det stora värdet med FN:s arbete med mänskliga rättigheter består i att förse individer och lokala rörelser med ett brokigt normativt ramverk, som i många fall visat sig vara ett gångbart redskap för att utmana sociala och politiska orättvisor. Att det internationella systemet för mänskliga rättigheter inte “fungerar” är därför inget direkt hot mot mänskliga rättigheter som redskap för politisk förändring.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Docent, 1985-, et al.
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Samvete i Sverige : om frihet och lydnad från medeltiden till idag
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vi lever i en tid då tankar om samvete och samvetsfrihet syns allt oftare i svensk offentlighet i rikspolitiken, på tidningarnas ledarsidor och i sociala medier. Historiskt sett har de båda begreppen använts för att markera en viss mån av frihet eller en skyddad position i moraliska, politiska och rättsliga konflikter.Hänvisningar till en enskild människas samvete och skillnader mellan en inre och en yttre domstol har kunnat legitimera befrielse från religiösa och statliga tvångsmekanismer och motiverat exempelvis vapen- eller abortvägran.En grupp forskare i historia, mänskliga rättigheter, rätts-vetenskap, etik och religionssociologi tar här ett gemensamt grepp om några av de mest brännande konflikterna kring samvete och samvetsfrihet i Sverige från medeltiden till idag. Fram träder en bild av komplexa och motspänstiga begrepp som även idag bär påtagliga spår av äldre distinktioner och historiska konfliktsammanhang.
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- Lindkvist, Linde, Högskolelektor, 1985-
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The Child Subject of Human Rights
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Subject of Human Rights. - Stanford : Stanford University Press. - 9781503613195 ; , s. 211-227
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Sundkvist, Emma, Högskolelektor
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Human rights as law, language, and space-making : women’s rights movement in post-revolutionary Egypt
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation analyses feminist activists’ use of human rights in post-revolutionary Egypt from 2011 to 2019. Drawing on interviews with feminist activists under three fieldwork trips, the dissertation investigates how: activists tried to implement gender equality in the country’s new constitutions, navigated the shrinking public space after 2013, sustained their activism against sexual violence despite a fragmented movement and repressive politics, and how we can understand contentious streets activism against sexual violence from a human rights perspective. The overarching question is how activists pursue human rights activism in a post-revolutionary setting, focusing on what function human rights are given in a context of some opportunities but also growing constraints. To answer that question, the dissertation develops a three-dimensional framework that conceptualises human rights as law, language, and space-making. The dissertation thereby contributes to theories of human rights activism as well as research on women’s rights activism in post-2011 Egypt. The three-dimensional framework helps to capture and analyse how human rights – whether used as law, language, or space-making – challenge different societal and political aspects of women’s rights.The findings and arguments draw primarily on semi-structured and in-depth interviews conducted under fieldwork trips in 2013, 2015, and 2019. The study also involves ethnographic observations and text analysis. The analysis of these source materials is based on the ontological position that to know what human rights are, we need to explore how activists use human rights and the ways in which they navigate their political surrounding. This position invites scholars to avoid applying pre-defined understandings of human rights and instead investigate how certain political conditions facilitate different modes of activism and what meanings and functions human rights acquire in them.The thesis comprises four original articles. Article 1 concerns the drafting of two Egyptian constitutions after 2011 and how feminist activists attempted to integrate gender equality into different versions. The article argues that while activists used international human rights principles and a feminist definition of equality as their starting points, they also had to navigate the politics of the Egyptian constitution-making process to find resonance within their communities. Article 2 analyses the period after 2013, a period when the Egyptian political landscape became more oppressive under the rule of President Abd el Fattah el-Sisi. This article focuses on how activists pursued human rights advocacy during such conditions. It argues that, in a context where mobilization and activism for human rights are restricted, legal activism may have means and implications other than reinforcing state power. Article 3 concerns how young feminists try to sustain their activism, especially in their work against sexual violence, which became rather fragmented in the decade since the revolution. The empirical material comes from 2019, a point at which women’s rights were integrated with revolutionary memories and emotions and gained a function of keeping the feminist struggle alive. The final Article 4 analyses the movement against widespread sexual violence in the turbulent political landscape from 2011 to 2013. By developing the concept of human rights as space-making, this article reveals how activism for women’s right to bodily integrity transformed into a movement that claimed women’s rights to reconstitute the preconditions for Egyptian politics.
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