Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part I .Introduction
6. Chapter 1. Women's International Human Rights Law; The Way Forward 3
7. Part II. Challenges
8. Chapter 2. To Bellow like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity, and the Discourse of Rights 39
9. Chapter 3. What are "Women's International Human Rights"? 58
10. Chapter 4. State Responsibility Goes Private: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in international Human Rights Law 85
11. Chapter 5. Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture 116
12. Chapter 6. Why Rethinking the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law 153
13. Part III. International and Regional Approaches
14. Chapter 7. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws 167
15. Chapter 8. Toward More Effective Enforcement of Women's Human Rights Through the Use of International Human Rights Law and Procedures 189
16. Chapter 9. State Accountability Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 228
17. Chapter 10. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Women in the Inter-American System 257
18. Chapter 11. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of Women's Rights in the African Human Rights System 285
19. Chapter 12. African Women's Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights–Toward a Relevant Theory and Practice 307
20. Chapter 13 Domestic Violence as an International Human Rights Issue 326
21. Chapter 14. The Developing Approaches of the International Commission of Jurists to Women's Human Rights 340
22. Part IV. National Approaches
23. Chapter 15. General Approaches to the Domestic Application of Women's International Human Rights Law 351
24. Chapter 16. Obstacles to Women's Rights in India 375
25. Chapter 17. Challenges to the Application of International Women's Human Rights in the Sudan 397
26. Chapter 18. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women's International Human Rights; The Example of Ghana 422
27. Chapter 19. Canadian Approaches to Equality Rights and Gender Equity in the Courts 437
28. Part V. Guaranteeing Human Rights of Particular Significance to Women
29. Chapter 20. Equality in the Home: Women's Rights and Personal Laws in South Asia 465
30. Chapter 21. Using the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights to Secure Women's Access to Land in Africa 495
31. Chapter 22. Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: The Colombian Case 515
32. Chapter 23. The Use of International Human Rights Norms to Combat Violence Against Women 532
33. Appendix A: Ratifications of Selected Human Rights Instruments 573
34. Appendix B: Model Communication Form 587
35. Appendix C: Organizational Resources 591
36. Contributors 597
37. Table of Cases 601
38. Index 607