Women's human rights : the international and comparative law casebook /
"Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them thei...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2008
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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| Summary: | "Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them their most fundamental freedoms. It also provides present and future lawyers the legal tools for change, demonstrating how human rights treaties can be used to obtain new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination with respect to employment, land ownership, inheritance, subordination in marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, and the denial of reproductive rights." "Ross examines international and regional human rights treaties in depth, including treaty language and the jurisprudence and general interpretive guidelines developed by human rights bodies. Readers will understand how to help bring about legislation, court decisions, and executive action that protect women from human rights violations."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | xxxi, 665 p. ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780812240672 (alk. paper) 0812240677 (alk. paper) |