Violence against women under international human rights law

The Resource Violence against women under international human rights law

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Violence against women under international human rights law

Statement of responsibility

Alice Edwards

Language

eng

Summary

"Since the mid-1990s increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women; however, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under international human rights law. Drawing on feminist theories of international law and human rights, this critical examination of the United Nations' legal approaches to violence against women analyses the merits of strategies which incorporate women's concerns of violence within existing human rights norms such as equality norms, the right to life, and the prohibition against torture. Although feminist strategies of inclusion have been necessary as well as symbolically powerful for women, the book argues that they also carry their own problems and limitations, prevent a more radical transformation of the human rights system, and ultimately reinforce the unequal position of women under international law."--

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N$T

Dewey number

342.08/78

Index

index present

LC call number

K644

LC item number

.E329 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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