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Due diligence and its application to protect women from violence /

Analyses the effectiveness of the due diligence standard as well as other strategies to prevent and respond to violence against women by non-state actors taking into account contemporary problems that pose threats to women's rights.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Benninger-Budel, Carin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
Colección:Nijhoff law specials ; 73.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The due diligence standard : what does it entail for women's rights? / Yakin Ertürk
  • The history and development of the due diligence standard in international law and its role in the protection of women against violence / Joanna Bourke-Martignoni
  • Preventing violence against women : the due diligence standard with respect to the obligation to banish gender stereotypes on the grounds of Article 5 (a) of the CEDAW Convention / Rikki Holtmaat
  • Emerging human rights obligations for non-state actors / Ineke Boerefijn and Eva Naezer
  • Due diligence and the power of economic players / Helen O'Connell
  • Due diligence and the fight against gender-based violence in the inter-American system / Elizabeth A.H. Abi-Mershed
  • Applying the due diligence principle in Asia Pacific / Lisa Pusey
  • South Africa's response to domestic violence / Dee Smythe
  • Violence against women by non-state actors, a responsibility for the state under human rights law : Amnesty International's work on domestic violence / Lisa Gormley
  • Spain : more rights, but the obstacles remain / María Naredo Molero
  • Human trafficking : a brief introduction to issues of responsibility and accountability / Anne Gallagher
  • Problems with the implementation of the due diligence standard from the perspective of countries of origin in the OSCE region / Shivaun Scanlan
  • Human trafficking in Germany / Nivedita Prasad and Babette Rohner
  • Violence against women, cultural/religious traditions and the international standard of due diligence / Judith Wyttenbach
  • Violence against women legitimised by arguments of 'culture' : thoughts from a Pakistani perspective / Farida Shaheed
  • Controlling women's sexuality, sustaining dominant culture(s), legitimising gender-based violence : the case for due diligence / Susana T. Fried
  • Violence against women in armed conflict / Theodor Winkler.