Women Political Dissenters: Going Beyond the European Human Rights Rulings

This workshop is organised in the context of the research project 'Women political dissenters: going beyond the text of European human rights rulings' funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), to bring together experts to explore emerging themes related to the legal framework, conceptual and methodological loci of the project.

Women political dissenters face dual oppression - political and gender-based - raising complexities in the quest for justice. While European human rights litigation plays a crucial role in addressing political oppression, it is unclear whether judicial rulings capture the gender dimensions of such cases. 

In a pilot study, the project scrutinizes two landmark European Court of Human Rights cases - Zarema Musayeva e.a. and Vanessa Kogan e.a. - going beyond their text and applying the PAN (process-actors-narrative) approach in human rights litigation. It investigates, in particular, the procedural history, key figures, and socio-political contexts behind these cases to develop and test a framework for analyzing gendered political oppression. 

The goals of the workshop are to: 

• Foster an exchange of cutting-edge ideas and methodologies related to the general topic of women political dissenters and/or the methods to analyse human rights case-law in the quest for justice;
• Highlight innovative research and emerging trends related to the event’s framework;
• Identify future directions for research and partnership related to the event’s framework.

The workshop's capacity is limited. Those wishing to attend are kindly invited to contact dr. Aikaterini (Katerina) Tsampi at a.tsampi rug.nl.