Instead, the paper limits itself to consideration of the gendered impact of corruption in four important areas explicitly mentioned in a recent resolution of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption entitled Addressing the Societal Impacts of Corruption (2023): • access to quality and affordable health services • sexual forms of corruption • equitabl. [...] Contents Impact of corruption on girls’ and women’s ability to access quality and affordable health services 5 Impact of corruption on women’s access to health services 5 Role played by women in preventing corruption in the health sector 10 Sexual corruption 11 Impact of sexual corruption on women 11 Role played by women in curbing sexual corruption 14 Impact of corruption on women’s access to jus. [...] The impacts of corruption on women and their role in preventing corruption 16 Impact of corruption on women’s access to justice Impact of corruption on women’s access to justice Historic, structural discrimination against women and girls has resulted in unequal access to resources, justice and rights in many parts of the world. [...] This is due to the The impacts of corruption on women and their role in preventing corruption 19 social stigma and cultural taboos associated with these types of offences (World Vision 2016), the difficulty in collecting evidence,5 the risk of re-victimisation and having to re-live the trauma, discriminatory myths and sexual stereotypes and, in some countries, even the risk of being prosecuted for. [...] Finally, it is worth noting that the relationship between the presence of women in positions of political authority and the extent of corruption is mediated by regime type; the association is stronger in democracies than autocracies and in The impacts of corruption on women and their role in preventing corruption 26 parliamentary systems than presidential ones (Esarey and Schwindt-Bayer 2017; Bauh.
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Table of Contents
- Impact of corruption on girls’ and women’s ability to access quality and affordable health services 5
- Impact of corruption on women’s access to health services 5
- Women’s contact and bribery rates with health services 5
- Gender-specific corruption risks in health services 6
- Sexual corruption in health care 9
- Role played by women in preventing corruption in the health sector 10
- Sexual corruption 11
- Impact of sexual corruption on women 11
- Role played by women in curbing sexual corruption 14
- Impact of corruption on women’s access to justice 16
- Impact of corruption on women’s access to justice 16
- How corruption affects women seeking justice 16
- How gender inequalities impede women’s ability to report corruption 17
- Role played by women in limiting the impact of corruption in the justice sector 19
- Women’s participation in policy-making and government 21
- Impact of corruption on women’s political participation 21
- Corruption and women’s political representation 21
- Impact of corruption scandals on women’s political representation 22
- Role of women’s political participation in preventing and curbing corruption 23
- Active suffrage 23
- Passive suffrage 24
- References 27
