Please Give Me a Remedy: Women Human Rights Defenders Mobilize for Occupational Safety and Health

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Abstract

This article investigates the strategies that women human rights defenders use to engage in legal mobilization and overcome gendered barriers to justice. It does so through analysis of a specific health and safety dispute involving women workers and the Republic of Korea’s biggest semiconductor corporation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)638-657
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Human Rights Practice
Volume16
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2024

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author wishes to thank the interviewees for their time and input, as well as the editors and the three reviewers for their thoughtful comments. The author is also grateful to the other participants of the 2023 Poverty Law Conference at Berkeley Law School for their feedback. This work was funded by Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO; Research Foundation-Flanders) [grant number 12Z8921N]; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) [Charg\u00E9e de Recherches Fellowship FC38129]. It is also part of the theme 'Institutions for Conflict Resolution' of the Dutch legal sector plan ('Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid') at Leiden Law School. This work uses data that were collected during a previous research program funded by the Pascal Decroos Fund [grant number FPD/2017/1369] and Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics. This School's Research Ethics Committee gave permission SREC/090118/06 to conduct this field work during a research visit at Seoul National University.

Funding Information:
This work was funded by Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek\u2014Vlaanderen (FWO; Research Foundation\u2014Flanders) [grant number 12Z8921N]; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) [Charg\u00E9e de Recherches Fellowship FC38129]. It is also part of the theme \u2018Institutions for Conflict Resolution\u2019 of the Dutch legal sector plan (\u2018Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid\u2019) at Leiden Law School. This work uses data that were collected during a previous research program funded by the Pascal Decroos Fund [grant number FPD/2017/1369] and Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics. This School's Research Ethics Committee gave permission SREC/090118/06 to conduct this field work during a research visit at Seoul National University.

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