Overview
- Analyses if and how existing human rights frameworks respond to structural discrimination against women
- Links legal doctrine with social scientific theories and tools (life-course perspective)
- Illustrades the interconnection between gender stereotypes and hierarchies, discrimination in all spheres of life and violence against women
- Provides starting point for further research on human rights and structural discrimination against other social groups
Part of the book series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht (BEITRÄGE, volume 280)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analytical Scope and International Legal Framework
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Front Matter
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State Responsibility for Violence Against Women: Transformative Potential of Primary and Secondary Human Rights Obligations
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Back Matter
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About this book
International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal research has paid little attention to this gentle turn in international human rights law and practice to address structural discrimination. In order to address this gap, this study analyses whether and to what extent international and regional human rights frameworks foresee positive obligations for State parties to address structural discrimination, and, more precisely, gender hierarchies and stereotypes as root causes of gender-based violence.
In order to answer this question, the book analyses whether or not international human rights law requires pursuing a root-cause-sensitive and transformative approach to structural discrimination against women in general and to the prevention, protection and reparation of violence against women in particular; to what extent international courts and (quasi)judicial bodies address State responsibility for the systemic occurrence of violence against women and its underlying root causes; whether or not international courts and monitoring bodies have suitable tools for addressing structural discrimination within the society of a contracting party; and the limits to a transformative approach.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Human Rights Law and Structural Discrimination
Book Subtitle: The Example of Violence against Women
Authors: Elisabeth Veronika Henn
Series Title: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58677-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F�rderung der Wissenschaften e.V., to be exercised by Max-Planck-Institut f�r ausl�ndisches �ffentliches Recht und V�lkerrecht, Heidelberg 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-58676-1Published: 15 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-58677-8Published: 03 July 2019
Series ISSN: 0172-4770
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7135
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Women's Studies