Rebuilding Magic Valley Steelhed Hatchery

Engendering Human Rights:
Women and Poverty -  a Human
Rights Approach
Sandra Fredman
Oxford University
Engendering human rights
 
‘For too long, it was assumed that development
was a process that lifts all boats... and that it was
gender neutral in its impact.’
‘Human 
development
 if not engendered, is
endangered.’...Step beyond
Human 
rights
 will continue
to exclude women
unless expressly engendered
Engendering Human Rights
 
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and
poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the
streets, and steal loaves of bread.”
(Anatole France)
Take account of power relations in which rights are
exercised and interlocking sources of disadvantage.
Expand feasible options available to women
Recognise and value care, responsibility, solidarity
Not just women: gendered relationships. Women’s
equal participation in workforce = men’s equal
participation in home.
 
Gendered poverty
 
Primary responsibility for
child-care and unpaid work
Imbalance of Power within family: lack of agency
Violence
Health-care: Maternal mortality; reproductive
complications
Education
Precarious work in formal sector; predominance in
informal sector and agricultural work
Role of law in constructing gendered
poverty
 
Absence of property rights: women
precipitated into poverty on widowhood or
divorce
Absence of protection against violence:
interferes with health, education, paid work,
entrepreneurship
Lack of mobility interferes with poverty
alleviation
Interlocking factors
 
Formal Equality before the law
 
Equal property rights: customary law and
statutory law
Rule of Law: protection against violence
Minimum age of marriage
Freedom of movement
Equal right to vote
From formal
to substantive equality
Formal equality
 
 
Same treatment:
antecedent
disadvantage not
relevant
Male norm
Relative: equally poor?
Abstracted from social
context
 
Substantive equality
 
Different treatment may be
necessary to redress
disadvantage (quotas)
Structural obstacles
Improve conditions for all
Power/cultural norms
Substantive equality
 
Break the cycle of disadvantage associated
with status groups (allows quotas etc)
Promote dignity and worth, redressing
stereotyping, stigma, humiliation and violence
Transformational: Aim to achieve structural
change
Participative: Facilitate full participation in
decision-making
Interaction between dimensions
 
Redressing disadvantage
’ can cause 
stigma
:
welfare recipients
Focus on 
stigma
 alone can leave 
disadvantage
untouched
Redressing disadvantage 
may not be
sustainable without 
structural change
Women’s voice
 must genuinely 
redress
disadvantage: 
elite v poor women?
Poor Women: agents of change
or bearing burden of development?
 
Conditional Cash Transfer:
Redressing disadvantage
: cash
transfer, but less agency; time;
Addressing stereotyping
: women
primarily as mothers; fathers ignored
Structural change
: Poor quality
services
Participation
: Often missing
Alternatives: Universal good quality
services; unconditional cash transfers
Microfinancing
Substantive Equality and
microfinancing
 
Redressing disadvantage
: Small unprofitable
businesses; empowerment unproved
Addressing stereotyping
: Women as efficient
users of resources but cultural obstacles
unchanged, violence
Transformation
: Structures unchanged: diverts
State responsibility for rights to market
Participation
: From group solidarity to individual
consumers.
Challenges ahead
 
Engendered human rights: rights in context of
complex social structures
Substantive equality for women and men
Positive duties on State and all with power:
U
niversal high quality services
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The Magic Valley Steelhed Hatchery, built in 1985, is undergoing a rebuild due to deteriorating walls and spalling at expansion joints. Significant issues include waste load allocations, disease management, and manpower concerns. The rebuild entails reducing Total Phosphorus levels, addressing diseases like IHN and Cold Water disease, and upgrading rearing container types. Images showcase the history, challenges, and proposed solutions for the hatchery renovation.

  • Rebuilding
  • Hatchery
  • Steelhed
  • Environment
  • Conservation

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  1. Engendering Human Rights: Women and Poverty - a Human Rights Approach Sandra Fredman Oxford University

  2. Engendering human rights For too long, it was assumed that development was a process that lifts all boats... and that it was gender neutral in its impact. Human development if not engendered, is endangered. ...Step beyond Human rights will continue to exclude women unless expressly engendered

  3. Engendering Human Rights "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread. (Anatole France) Take account of power relations in which rights are exercised and interlocking sources of disadvantage. Expand feasible options available to women Recognise and value care, responsibility, solidarity Not just women: gendered relationships. Women s equal participation in workforce = men s equal participation in home.

  4. Gendered poverty Primary responsibility for child-care and unpaid work Imbalance of Power within family: lack of agency Violence Health-care: Maternal mortality; reproductive complications Education Precarious work in formal sector; predominance in informal sector and agricultural work

  5. Role of law in constructing gendered poverty Absence of property rights: women precipitated into poverty on widowhood or divorce Absence of protection against violence: interferes with health, education, paid work, entrepreneurship Lack of mobility interferes with poverty alleviation

  6. Interlocking factors Early marriage and teenage pregnancy Lack of education Health; maternal mortality Violence Lack of property rights, customary law, access to capital Lack of agency; secondary poverty

  7. Teenage pregnancy and early marriage Opportuniti es for paid work Violence en route and at school Engendering the Right to Education Sanitation at school Syllabus

  8. Hours of work Equal rights for precarious and informal workers Violence and sexual harassment at work Engendering the right to work Job segregatio n and women s work Parental rights and child-care Education and training Equal pay for work of equal value

  9. Formal Equality before the law Equal property rights: customary law and statutory law Rule of Law: protection against violence Minimum age of marriage Freedom of movement Equal right to vote

  10. From formal to substantive equality Formal equality Same treatment: antecedent disadvantage not relevant Male norm Relative: equally poor? Abstracted from social context Substantive equality Different treatment may be necessary to redress disadvantage (quotas) Structural obstacles Improve conditions for all Power/cultural norms

  11. Substantive equality Break the cycle of disadvantage associated with status groups (allows quotas etc) Promote dignity and worth, redressing stereotyping, stigma, humiliation and violence Transformational: Aim to achieve structural change Participative: Facilitate full participation in decision-making

  12. Interaction between dimensions Redressing disadvantage can cause stigma: welfare recipients Focus on stigma alone can leave disadvantage untouched Redressing disadvantage may not be sustainable without structural change Women s voice must genuinely redress disadvantage: elite v poor women?

  13. Poor Women: agents of change or bearing burden of development? Conditional Cash Transfer: Redressing disadvantage: cash transfer, but less agency; time; Addressing stereotyping: women primarily as mothers; fathers ignored Structural change: Poor quality services Participation: Often missing Alternatives: Universal good quality services; unconditional cash transfers

  14. Microfinancing

  15. Substantive Equality and microfinancing Redressing disadvantage: Small unprofitable businesses; empowerment unproved Addressing stereotyping: Women as efficient users of resources but cultural obstacles unchanged, violence Transformation: Structures unchanged: diverts State responsibility for rights to market Participation: From group solidarity to individual consumers.

  16. Challenges ahead Engendered human rights: rights in context of complex social structures Substantive equality for women and men Positive duties on State and all with power: Universal high quality services

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