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1. Ross, Susan Deller : Women's human rights, 2008
 

BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph

Women's human rights : the international and comparative law casebook / Ross, Susan Deller, xxxi, 665 p.. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

ISBN 978-0-8122-4067-2

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Women's status and CEDAW. 2. Equality doctrines and gender discrimination: the evolving jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court. 3. The interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR and the Human Rights Committee's evolving equal protection doctrine. 4. Conflicting human rights under international law: freedom of religion versus women's equality rights. 5. Enforcing women's international human rights under regional treaties: the American convention on human rights and the African charter on human and peoples' rights. 6. Enforcing women's international human rights under regional treaties: the European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. 7. Economic empowerment and employment discrimination: Europe and the United States compared. 8. The special treatment versus equal treatment debate. 9. CEDAW in practice. 10. Enforcing women's international rights at home: international law in domestic courts. 11. Strategies to combat domestic violence. 12. Strategies for ending female genital mutilation and footbinding: Western imperialism or women's human rights?. 13. Gender and polygny - religion, culture and equality in marriage. 14. Women's reproductive rights.

INDEX WORDS:
* kvinnor = women = naiset
* abort = abortion = abortti
* afrikanska domstolen för de mänskliga rättigheterna = African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights = Afrikan ihmisoikeustuomioistuin
* afrikanska unionen = African Union = Afrikan Unioni
* barnäktenskap = child marriage = lapsiavioliitto
* CEDAW Committee = CEDAW Committee = CEDAW Committee
* äktenskap = divorce = avioero
* familjevåld = domestic violence = perheväkivalta
* jämlikhet = equality = tasa-arvo
* jämlik behandling = equal treatment = tasa-arvoinen kohtelu
* europeiska domstolen för de mänskliga rättigheterna = European Court of Human Rights = Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuin
* EU = EU = EU
* kvinnlig könsstympning = female genital mutilation (FGM) = naisten sukupuolielinten silpominen
* feminism = feminism = naisasialiike
* fotbindning = footbinding = jalkasidonta
* HIV/AIDS = HIV/AIDS = HIV/AIDS
* kommittén för de mänskliga rättigheterna = Human Rights Committee = ihmisoikeuskomitea
* hedersmord = honour killing = kunniamurha
* islam = Islam = islaminusko
* äktenskap = marriage = avioliitto
* ILO = ILO = ILO
* NGO = NGO = NGO
* nationalitet = nationality = kansallisuus
* äganderätt = right to property = omistusoikeus
* våldtäkt = rape = raiskaus
* reproduktiva rättigheter = reproductive rights = lisääntymiseen liittyvät oikeudet
* reservationer = reservations = varaumat
* könsdiskriminering = sex discrimination = sukupuolisyrjintä
* könsselektiv abort = sex-selective abortion = sukupuolen perusteella tehtävä abortti
* slaveri = slavery = orjuus
* talibaner = Talibans = talibaanit
* tortyr = torture = kidutus
* änkor = widows = lesket

GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Afghanistan / Africa / Austria / Australia / Bangladesh / Belgium / Brazil / Burundi / Cameroon / Cambodia / Chile / Canada / Chad / China / Congo / Costa Rica / Ivory Coast / Croatia / Denmark / Djibouti / Egypt / El Salvador / Ecuador / Eritrea / Ehiopia / Finland / Gambia / Germany / Ghana / Greece / Guatemala / Guinea / Guinea-Bissau / Hungary / India / Indonesia / Iraq / Ireland / Iran / Israel / Italy / Jamaica / Japan / Kenya / Kurdistan / Kuwait / Latvia / Liberia / Libya / Malawi / Malaysia / Mali / Mauritius / Monaco / Morocco / Mozambique / Nepal / New Zeland / Nicaragua / Nigeria / Norway / Pakistan / Paraguay / Peru / Philippines / Poland / Russian Federation / Rwanda / Sierra Leone / Somalia / South Africa / South Korea / Spain / Sri Lanka / Sudan / Swaziland / Sweden / Switzerland / Syria / Taiwan / Tanzania / Thailand / Togo / Tunisia / Turkey / Uganda / Ukraine / United Kingdom / United Arab Emirates / Uruguay / Viet Nam / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Yemen

NOTE (GENERAL): ICCPR; ICESCR; CEDAW; UDHR; UN charter; ECHR; ACHPR; CAT;


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