A human rights based approach to men's rights [Video 5:30]

iainmf · 2022-07-03T04:35:35+00:00

Video Description:

I propose that we take a human rights based approach to men’s rights. That is, treat men as rights-holders. This means governments and other duty-bearers have an obligation to men as rights-holders.

Duty-bearers should apply the PANEL principles when developing their polices and practices. The principles are:

Participation

Accountability

Non-discrimination and equality

Empowerment

Legality

This video is based on work by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, the Scottish Human rights Commission (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_8Qa6GXaZgA), and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmraQ9nu-CE)

rammo123 · 2022-07-03T23:06:00+00:00

It always grinds my gears when men are specifically excluded from human rights discussions. Like it's actually more work to exclude men from the conversation than it is to just make the conversation gender neutral.

Oncefa2 · 2022-07-05T18:14:22+00:00

The distinction between men as rights-holders and men as duty-bearers (or even rights violaters) is really important.

More and more people see humans rights drawn down gender lines: women are rights holders, who's rights we dare not violate. And men are seen as rights bearers, who need to protect women's rights, usually from other men who are portrayed as rights violators.

We fail to recognise that women are also rights bearers (and rights violaters) and therefore have equal responsibility to uphold both women's rights and men's rights.

On that point, we can never guarantee that women will have equality if we don't hold women responsible for protecting their own rights, and for not violating their rights. And that's before we even start talking about women's responsibilities towards men and men's rights, which is an equally important conversation.

In a way, this difference in treatment mirrors the concept of malagency, where men are seen as active "doers" and women are seen as passive agents (usually as "victims"). Holding women equally responsible and accountable should be seen as empowering because it challenges that traditional gender norm. Likewise, placing men's rights on equal footing and importance as women's rights (because men are valid rights-holders) challenges the other side of that same gender norm.

Grow_peace_in_Bedlam · 2022-07-06T11:37:56+00:00

It often does seem that human rights don't really apply to men. For example, think about how often religion and tradition are invoked as justifications for mutilating boys' genitals.

Contrast that with Article 12(5) of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence of 2011 (the "Istanbul Convention"), which reads as follows: "Parties shall ensure that culture, custom, religion, tradition or so-called 'honour' shall not be considered as justification for any acts of violence covered by the scope of this Convention."

Article 38 of the Istanbul Convention specifically includes "female genital mutilation" as one of the "acts of violence" covered by the scope of the Convention.

None of the 45 signatory states (36 of which have ratified it) have banned male circumcision.

Title	A human rights based approach to men's rights [Video 5:30]
Author	iainmf
Upvotes	24
Comments	9
Date	July 3, 2022 4:19 AM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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