The legal protection of women from violence : normative gaps in international law / edited by Rashida Manjoo and Jackie Jones.

London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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K5191.W65 L44 2018

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viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

(OCoLC)1012636012

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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