The legal protection of women and girls from violence : normative gaps in international law

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Title
"The legal protection of women and girls from violence : normative gaps in international law"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Jackie Jones and Rashida Manjoo
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2018
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • :hbk

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Summary: 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.The book puts forward a strong case that there is a legal gap in international law for the protection of women and girls from violence and that this could be remedied through a new United Nations Convention or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

Includes bibliographical references and index

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