This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights
and transitional justice and women's place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights
and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights
institutions and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a
multidisciplinary approach the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place
of women's rights (and gender) situating it within contemporary country-specific political
legal socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing
women (and women's groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina from Kenya to
Sierra Leone and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka in a variety of contexts attending especially to
the relationships between local and global forces
