Fair for Women? A Gender Analysis of Benefit Sharing
If benefit sharing is about justice, then it needs to be fair for both sexes. This chapter provides a gender analysis of benefit sharing. Five cases are presented, from Kenya (Nairobi sex workers), Nigeria (NIPRISAN), southern Africa (San/Hoodia), India (Kani people), and Iceland (deCODE biobank), t...
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ftunivclancas:oai:clok.uclan.ac.uk:16043 2023-05-15T16:49:45+02:00 Fair for Women? A Gender Analysis of Benefit Sharing Cook Lucas, Julie Alvarez Castillo, Fatima 2013-05-31 http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/16043/ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6205-3_6 unknown Springer Cook Lucas, Julie orcid:0000-0002-6391-5430 and Alvarez Castillo, Fatima (2013) Fair for Women? A Gender Analysis of Benefit Sharing. In: Benefit Sharing. Springer, pp. 129-151. ISBN Print: 978-94-007-6204-6; Online: 978-94-007-6205-3 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6205-3_6 Y - Combined/general subject unspecified Book Section PeerReviewed 2013 ftunivclancas https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6205-3_6 2021-09-09T22:27:46Z If benefit sharing is about justice, then it needs to be fair for both sexes. This chapter provides a gender analysis of benefit sharing. Five cases are presented, from Kenya (Nairobi sex workers), Nigeria (NIPRISAN), southern Africa (San/Hoodia), India (Kani people), and Iceland (deCODE biobank), to show the ways in which women are politically marginalised, and the implications of this for genuine fairness in benefit sharing. In the light of international commitments to women's rights, international guidelines on benefit sharing are examined for the extent to which they protect such rights. Seeing how gender-based power imbalances on the ground can work against the implementation of guidelines and policies demonstrates the importance of strategies, processes and mechanisms that are sensitive to power dynamics in local contexts. The chapter concludes that all guidelines and policies for benefit sharing should explicitly require women's meaningful participation in all phases of decision-making, and should include examples of the kinds of mechanisms that will enable women to have an effective voice. Book Part Iceland University of Central Lancashire: CLOK - Central Lancashire Online Knowledge 129 151 Dordrecht |
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If benefit sharing is about justice, then it needs to be fair for both sexes. This chapter provides a gender analysis of benefit sharing. Five cases are presented, from Kenya (Nairobi sex workers), Nigeria (NIPRISAN), southern Africa (San/Hoodia), India (Kani people), and Iceland (deCODE biobank), to show the ways in which women are politically marginalised, and the implications of this for genuine fairness in benefit sharing. In the light of international commitments to women's rights, international guidelines on benefit sharing are examined for the extent to which they protect such rights. Seeing how gender-based power imbalances on the ground can work against the implementation of guidelines and policies demonstrates the importance of strategies, processes and mechanisms that are sensitive to power dynamics in local contexts. The chapter concludes that all guidelines and policies for benefit sharing should explicitly require women's meaningful participation in all phases of decision-making, and should include examples of the kinds of mechanisms that will enable women to have an effective voice. |
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Cook Lucas, Julie orcid:0000-0002-6391-5430 and Alvarez Castillo, Fatima (2013) Fair for Women? A Gender Analysis of Benefit Sharing. In: Benefit Sharing. Springer, pp. 129-151. ISBN Print: 978-94-007-6204-6; Online: 978-94-007-6205-3 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6205-3_6 |
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