Intersectionality In The Human Rights Legal Framework On Violence Against Women

Author : Lorena Sosa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316780317
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women written by Lorena Sosa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While gender has become a cornerstone of the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW), a new theoretical concept has been gaining ground and becoming increasingly visible: intersectionality. In response, this book clarifies three main aspects of the incorporation of intersectionality: it identifies the theoretical and practical implications in relation to VAW; it reveals to what extent intersectionality is incorporated in the current human rights framework on VAW; and it provides empirical evidence of the potential benefits and advantages for cases of VAW derived from the application of intersectionality. This book presents a comprehensive view of approaches within three jurisdictions (the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Inter-American System) and it will appeal to human rights scholars, lawyers and other practitioners, particularly those interested in VAW and diversity.

Author : Johanna Bond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192639544
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights written by Johanna Bond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by multiple, intersecting forms of subordination. Intersectionality theory posits that aspects of identity, such as race and gender, are mutually constitutive and intersect to create unique experiences of discrimination and subordination. Perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict, of example, often target women based on both gender and ethnicity. Human rights remedies that fail to capture the intersectional nature of human rights violations do not offer comprehensive redress to victims. This title explores the influence of intersectionality theory on human rights in the modern era and traces the evolution of intersectionality as a theoretical framework in the United States and around the world. It draws upon feminist theory and human rights jurisprudence to argue that scholars and activists have under-utilized intersectionality theory in the global discourse of human rights. As the central intergovernmental organization charged with the protection of human rights, the United Nations has been slow to embrace the insights gained from intersectionality theory. This work argues that the United Nations and other human rights organizations must more actively embrace intersectionality as an analytical framework in order to fully address the complexity of human rights violations around the world.

Author : Rashida Manjoo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351732838
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legal Protection of Women From Violence written by Rashida Manjoo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Johanna Bond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198868839
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights written by Johanna Bond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers a new way to think about human rights and the type of harm caused by discrimination globally. It traces the growing recognition of intersectionality in the work of human rights organizations around the world. This work argues that these groups should look for ways to fully incorporate intersectional analysis into the work they do.

Author : Elisabeth Veronika Henn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662586770
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Human Rights Law and Structural Discrimination written by Elisabeth Veronika Henn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal research has paid little attention to this gentle turn in international human rights law and practice to address structural discrimination. In order to address this gap, this study analyses whether and to what extent international and regional human rights frameworks foresee positive obligations for State parties to address structural discrimination, and, more precisely, gender hierarchies and stereotypes as root causes of gender-based violence. In order to answer this question, the book analyses whether or not international human rights law requires pursuing a root-cause-sensitive and transformative approach to structural discrimination against women in general and to the prevention, protection and reparation of violence against women in particular; to what extent international courts and (quasi)judicial bodies address State responsibility for the systemic occurrence of violence against women and its underlying root causes; whether or not international courts and monitoring bodies have suitable tools for addressing structural discrimination within the society of a contracting party; and the limits to a transformative approach.

Author : Aisling Swaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107106346
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict-Related Violence Against Women written by Aisling Swaine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the current 'weapon of war' discourse on sexual violence, highlighting a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women.

Author : Kimberle Crenshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620975510
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Intersectionality written by Kimberle Crenshaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers--inside and outside of the United States--have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, "the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations." Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.

Author : Alice Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494856
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law written by Alice Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Celina Romany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Human Rights in the Americas written by Celina Romany and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorena Sosa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172241
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women written by Lorena Sosa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theoretically explores intersectionality within human rights norms on violence against women and the derived duties for States.