Human Rights Responses to Violence Against Women

The Fight against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting among the Ejaghams of Cameroon: Kinks in the Legal Approach and Implications for Public Health Practice

“…Evidence from previous literature shows that FGC is one major indicator of gender inequality and that it is linked to child marriage, forced sexual debut, and health complications across the life course (Galukande et al, 2015 ; Shah, 2015 ). Therefore, FGC violates several human rights outlined under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Galukande et al, 2015 ; Goldberg & Kelly, 1993 ).…”

Women, Gender, and International Human Rights: Overview

“…It successfully challenged the invisibility of abuses in private contexts of family and intimate relationships, and the failure of the international human rights community to recognize different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) as violations of human rights (Bunch 1990;Bunch and Reilly 1994). As documented by Sheila Dauer (2019), this spurred the adoption of many new global human rights norms aimed at combating or ending impunity for GBV. A UN special rapporteur on violence against women was established; an optional protocol to CEDAW was adopted (UNGA 1999), which enabled individual cases of violence against women to be brought to the committee; and a commitment to mainstreaming gender in the work of all treaty bodies included a broader understanding of GBV (ibid.).…”

Women, Gender, and International Human Rights: Overview

“…Dauer 2019 and Bawa 2019). More recently, adoption of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) represented a significant leap forward (Dauer 2019). Attilio Pisanò (2019) charts the long road from the Vienna WCHR to the adoption by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of its Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Children (2013) and Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (2015).…”