Gender mainstreaming and human rights

Joanna Bourke Martignoni

Chapter Spotlight 13 in Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming, 2026, pp 496-498 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since the 1990s, international and regional human rights bodies have taken numerous initiatives to further gender equality goals through the application of gender mainstreaming techniques. Examples of these gender and human rights mainstreaming strategies include the adoption of resolutions, the development of guidelines and operational manuals, annual days of discussion and efforts to promote gender parity in the composition of multilateral human rights institutions. These gender and human rights mainstreaming initiatives have resulted in greater attention being paid to sex and gender-based inequalities and to the human rights abuses predominantly experienced by women and gender-diverse persons. Critics of human rights-based gender mainstreaming argue that many of these strategies have been performative rather than transformative and that more resources, incisive leadership and meaningful involvement by a broad cross-section of feminist civil society actors in policy-making are required for real progress to be made towards the achievement of human-rights-based gender equality guarantees.

Keywords: Human Rights; Women's Rights; Gender Equality; Gender Integration; Gender Transformative; Gender Diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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