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Cultural Identity and Equal CitizenshipThe Case of Women’s Human RightsMasterclass at the conference Integrating Cities, Amsterdam, 8 March 2012
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Baukje Prins [email protected] Saharso [email protected]
Masterclass at the conference Integrating CitiesAmsterdam, 8 March 2012
The claim:
minorities have a right to maintain their culture
minority cultures are not sufficiently protectedby ensuring the individual rights of theirmembers
therefore minority cultures should also beprotected through special group rights orprivileges
Susan Moller Okin (US):
If minorities win group rights,
women lose out.
Unni Wikan, Necla Kelek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Europe):
Governments should be proactive in combatting Traditional Harmful Practices(THPs).
If a (national) minority does not behave as a decent liberal group:
Impose liberalism?
No. Try persuasion first, offer incentives for liberal reforms
If that does not work, intervene while considering:
Severity of rights violation
Consensus in community
Exit options
Historical agreements
1. How to address gender inequalities withinimmigrant cultures, without adding to the further demonization of these cultures,
or: how to avoid ethnocentrism ?
2. How to act in the interest of women, without ignoring their own voice,
or: how to avoid paternalism ?
What policies did your city developto address Traditional Harmful Practices?
Berlin postcard campaign against honour related violence
Project It does not hurt to talk (2005)
• Conversation groups : What does it mean to be a man?
• Homeparties for victims of domestic violence
Project Is.man (2007)
• Film & Workshop on honour crime
for (future) professionals
Good practices
Good practices
Project The table of one (2012):
Kitchen table meetings with women from yourneighbourhood.
Topic: what do I want with my life?
Aim: activation of unemployed and/orpoorly educated women
