Eliminating violence against women and girls: The case for an effective international law

Aisha K. Gill

Eliminating violence against women and girls: The case for an effective international law

Centre for Equality, Justice and Social Change

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Normative Gaps in the Legal Protection of Women from Violence: Pushing the frontiers of International Law
Editors	Rashida Manjoo, Jackie Jones
Publication status	Published - 12 Apr 2018

Publication series

Name	Human Rights
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

violence against women and girls
international law
justice for women

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