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Also available as 3 separate volumes. For in-depth coverage of gender issues in human rights law, from theory and cultural practices to legal instruments and the case law of international tribunals, this major three-volume work is without peer. More than 100 leading authorities in the field offer trenchant analyses of problems and solutions, crimes and abuses, available recourses, areas of empowerment -the entire spectrum of women's rights, discussed at a level of detail and legal awareness unavailable in any other single source. VOLUME 1 offers an overview of current legal discourse as it confronts domestic violence, violence in the workplace, sexual harassment, trafficking in women, and the other common abuses of women around the world. Here are valuable studies of the stereotypes and obstacles that underlie the human rights issues affecting women in the areas of employment, education, environment, and housing. This volume also features clear, unbiased perspectives on the women's rights aspects of religious fundamentalism and traditional practices such as female genital mutilation. VOLUME 2 addresses women's human rights in the practical context of international courts, legal instruments, and global and regional organizations. A thorough description of international criminal law and women's human rights in the jurisprudence of permanent international tribunals (including the new International Criminal Court) leads to a dialogue on how women's rights ought to be conceived and implemented. Coverage continues with analyses of various human rights and women's rights legal instruments, and ways in which international organizations (such as the WHO, IACHR, and CIM) have helped or hindered sensitivity to women's rights issues. Finally, select regional and cultural problems are examined, including cultural relativism, contemporary forms of female slavery, commercial sex workers in Asia and elsewhere, stove burning, acid-throwing, mail order brides, child marriages, and fatwa. VOLUME 3 emphasizes the personal empowerment of women -- including reproductive, sexual, and property rights -- in the specific regional and cultural contexts of the Middle East, Palestine, Eastern Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa. The human rights ramifications of the role of women in various religious traditions (Islam, Christian, Hindu, Baha'i and others), and the rights of specific groups of women (e.g., children, refugees, widows, indigenous women, and the disabled) are all examined. This volume also includes discussions of women during armed combat, women and the IMF, and women's rights and maritime/admiralty law, among other special studies. Each volume is thoroughly indexed, and a cumulative index of all three volumes appears in Volume 3.

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Author:   Kelly Dawn Askin ,  Dorean Koenig
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Transnational Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Weight:   4.391kg
ISBN:  

9781571050946

ISBN 10:   1571050949
Pages:   3000
Publication Date:   01 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

About the Contributors; Acknowledgments, Kelly D. Askin & Dorean M. Koenig; Introduction, Dorean M. Koenig; Section I; International Courts and Women; International Criminal Law and the International Criminal Court Statute: Crimes Against Women, Dorean M. Koenig & Kelly D. Askin; The Human Rights of Women in the Jurisprudence of Permanent International Tribunals, Dinah Shelton; Women or Rights: How Should Women’s Rights Be Conceived and Implemented?, John Valery White & Christopher L. Blakesley; Section II; International Instruments; Using International Human Rights Law and Procedures to Advance Women’s Human Rights, Andrew Byrnes; Expanding Remedies for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Litigation in Domestic Courts, Beth Stephens; U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Malvina Halberstam; The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Dame Silvia Cartwright; The Convention Against Torture, Andrew Byrnes; The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as a Resource for Women, Barbara Stark; Political Perspectives on the Civil and Political Rights of Women, Georgina Ashworth; Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Are the Rights of the Child Relevant to Women’s Rights?, Sofia Gruskin & Karen Plafker; The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Ved P. Nanda & Dawn M. McKnight, ILO Conventions and Women Workers; Anne Trebilcock. Draft Convention Against Sexual Exploitation, Elizabeth F. Defeis; Text of the Draft Convention Against Exploitation; Women and International Criminal Law Instruments and Processes, Jordan J. Paust; Assorted Instruments Affecting Women’s International Human Rights; Natalie H. Kaufman; Section III; International Organizations & Women; The World Health Organization and Women, Sev S. Fluss; The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Prospects for the Inter-American Human Rights System to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women, Elizabeth A. H. Abi-Mershed; The Inter-American Commission on Women; Meredith Caplan; The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Julia Harrington; The Role of Activism in the Enforcement of International Human Rights Law, Jessica Neuwirth; Section IV; Select Regional or Cultural Issues; Cultural Relativism and Women’s Human Rights, Mahnaz Afkhami; Contemporary Forms of Female Slavery, Anne Gallagher; Commercial Sex Workers in Asia: A Blind Spot in Human Rights Law, Ann D. Jordan; Stove Burning, Acid Throwing, and Honor Killings, Yasmeen Hassan; In Good Times and Bad: The Obligation to Protect “Mail-Order Brides”, Nora V. Demleitner; Fatwa in Bangladesh: Patriarchy’s Latest Sport, Faustina Pereira; Child Marriage, Annie Bunting; Appendix I: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; Appendix II: U.S. Reservations, Understandings and Declarations to the Women’s Convention; Appendix III: Status of Ratification; Index.

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