Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women from violence. There is currently no binding international convention that explicitly prohibits such violence; or calls for its elimination; or, mandates the criminalisation of all forms of violence against women.

This book critically analyses the treatment of violence against women in the United Nations system, and in three regional human rights systems. Each chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages coming from the legal instruments, the work of the monitoring systems, and the resulting findings and jurisprudence. The book proposes that the gap needs to be addressed through a new United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women, or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. A new Convention or Optional Protocol would be part of the transformative agenda that is needed to normatively address the promotion of a life free of violence for women, the responsibility of states to act with due diligence in the elimination of all forms of violence against all women, and the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9781351732833

Edition

Topic

Law

Subtopic

Law Theory & Practice

Index

Law

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Violence Against Women and the Need for International Law
1 The Importance of International Law and Institutions
2 Exploring the Consequences of the Normative Gap in Legal Protections Addressing Violence Against Women
3 Normative Developments on Violence Against Women in the United Nations System
4 The African Human Rights System: Challenges and Potential in Addressing Violence Against Women in Africa
5 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention)
6 Violence Against Women: Normative Developments in the Inter-American Human Rights System
7 Closing the Normative Gap in International Law on Violence Against Women: Developments, Initiatives and Possible Options
Index