Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law

by Alice Edwards

• ISBN13: 9780521767132
• ISBN10: 052176713X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Alice Edwards critically analyses current international human rights legal approaches to and strategies around combating violence against women.

Author Biography

Dr Alice Edwards is Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in various locations and for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Table of cases and advisory opinions	p. xvii
Table of treaties and other international instruments	p. xxiii
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
Violence against women under international law: progress to date	p. 7
Terms and terminology	p. 12
Employing feminist methods	p. 27
Structure and content	p. 32
Feminist theories on international law and human rights	p. 36
Introduction	p. 36
Four stages in feminist theorising and activism on human rights	p. 38
Four feminist critiques of international law and human rights	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 86
The international human rights treaty system: practice and procedure	p. 88
Introduction	p. 88
Mandates	p. 88
Membership and expertise of the treaty bodies	p. 92
State party reports	p. 108
General comments and women	p. 115
Interstate communications and women	p. 117
Individual communications and women	p. 118
Inquiry or fact-finding procedures and women	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 136
Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex	p. 140
Introduction	p. 140
Equality and non-discrimination: general concepts and feminist critiques	p. 141
Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex in international law	p. 149
Violence against women as sex discrimination (VAW = SD): evaluating a feminist strategy	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 196
Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment	p. 198
Introduction	p. 198
Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment under international law	p. 199
Violence against women as torture: emerging interpretations	p. 216
The feminist record on VAW = T	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 261
The right to life	p. 263
Introduction	p. 263
The right to life under international law	p. 264
Violence against women as a breach of the right to life	p. 290
Conclusion	p. 301
Conundrums, paradoxes, and continuing inequality: revisiting feminist narratives	p. 304
Introduction	p. 304
Feminist narratives on international law and human rights revisited	p. 307
Conclusion	p. 318
Strategising next steps: treaty body reform and towards humanising women	p. 321
Introduction	p. 321
Procedural reforms	p. 322
Structural reforms	p. 326
Contexlualising interpretation: humanising women	p. 335
Substantive reforms: a proposal for a protocol on violence against women	p. 338
Conclusion	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 344
Index	p. 365
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