The legal protection of women from violence : normative gaps in international law

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The legal protection of women from violence : normative gaps in international law

Title remainder

normative gaps in international law

Statement of responsibility

Jackie Jones and Rashida Manjoo

Creator

• Jones, Jackie M

Contributor

• Manjoo, Rashida

Author

• Manjoo, Rashida

Subject

• Women -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Women -- Violence against
• Women (International law)
• Women -- Crimes against | Law and legislation

Language

eng

Summary

Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women from violence. There is currently no binding international convention that explicitly prohibits such violence; or calls for its elimination; or, mandates the criminalisation of all forms of violence against women. This book critically analyses the treatment of violence against women in the United Nations system, and in three regional human rights systems. Each chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages coming from the legal instruments, the work of the monitoring systems, and the resulting findings and jurisprudence. The book proposes that the gap needs to be addressed through a new United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women, or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. A new Convention or Optional Protocol would be part of the transformative agenda that is needed to normatively address the promotion of a life free of violence for women, the responsibility of states to act with due diligence in the elimination of all forms of violence against all women, and the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.--

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• Human rights and international law

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Provided by Publisher

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YDX

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non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Human rights and international law