Violence Against Women Under International Human Rights Law

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

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Feminist theories on international law and human rights; 3. The international human rights treaty system: practice and procedure; 4. Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex; 5. Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 6. The right to life; 7. Conundrums, paradoxes, and continuing inequality: revisiting feminist narratives; 8. Strategising next steps: treaty body reform and humanising women.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Edwards, Edwards Alice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107617445
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61744-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Public International Law, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law