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Oral - Textual or Investigative
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This paper examines the UN Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination’s declaration and discussion with Tunisian Delegations from February 17, 2023. Tunisia has long stood as a pillar of what developing gender equality can look like in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, the UN Experts have not yet equally reviewed other grassroots feminist movements. This exclusionary declaration is the driving factor of the research question: What must countries do to gain international feminist recognition? To answer this question, the paper discusses scholar Valentine M. Moghadam’s article from the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies on August 25, 2022: Institutions, Feminist Mobilization, and Political Economy. This article is used as the model to understand the UN Experts' discussion and declaration through key tenets Moghadam displays of identity, credibility, and protection. After reviewing the applied model alongside the UN expert’s communication, the research question was answered. This paper’s findings are that a country's values must align directly with the UN’s on all reasonable standards. Specifically, they acknowledged Tunisia because they found its values to align with their own. By viewing this answer, two key implications are drawn out. President Saide of Tunisia has been using his country's claim of gender equality as a cover-up for encouraging physical racist attacks against sub-Saharan Africans. The UN is also displaying a subconscious bias towards Western values. This was extracted from the fact that most world powers in the UN are Western-based. This paper examines how ignoring other indigenous methods of developing gender equality can skew the public’s view subconsciously toward Western hierarchies. This paper discusses the future exploration of grassroots feminist movements and how their evaluation could change the inheritance of gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region.
The UN’s Standard of “Revolutionary Feminism”
Oral - Textual or Investigative
This paper examines the UN Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination’s declaration and discussion with Tunisian Delegations from February 17, 2023. Tunisia has long stood as a pillar of what developing gender equality can look like in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, the UN Experts have not yet equally reviewed other grassroots feminist movements. This exclusionary declaration is the driving factor of the research question: What must countries do to gain international feminist recognition? To answer this question, the paper discusses scholar Valentine M. Moghadam’s article from the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies on August 25, 2022: Institutions, Feminist Mobilization, and Political Economy. This article is used as the model to understand the UN Experts' discussion and declaration through key tenets Moghadam displays of identity, credibility, and protection. After reviewing the applied model alongside the UN expert’s communication, the research question was answered. This paper’s findings are that a country's values must align directly with the UN’s on all reasonable standards. Specifically, they acknowledged Tunisia because they found its values to align with their own. By viewing this answer, two key implications are drawn out. President Saide of Tunisia has been using his country's claim of gender equality as a cover-up for encouraging physical racist attacks against sub-Saharan Africans. The UN is also displaying a subconscious bias towards Western values. This was extracted from the fact that most world powers in the UN are Western-based. This paper examines how ignoring other indigenous methods of developing gender equality can skew the public’s view subconsciously toward Western hierarchies. This paper discusses the future exploration of grassroots feminist movements and how their evaluation could change the inheritance of gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Undergraduate