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Highlighting the historical developments of soft law normative standards on violence against women, as reflected in the documents and interpretations of mechanisms of the United Nations system, the article asserts that there is a need to close the protection gap in international law, and address the issues of widespread impunity, lack of accountabi...
Gender discrimination, both direct and indirect, is a leading cause of statelessness worldwide. Most often, direct discrimination is reflected in patriarchal nationality laws that restrict women’s ability to acquire, retain, and pass on their nationality to their children and/or spouses. There are also many indirect forms of discrimination owing to...
Historically Africa has suffered from numerous conflicts which are typically addressed through international criminal law mechanisms and courts, but the need for a broader approach is both evident and demanded. This book pulls together the debates originating from the conference “Criminal Justice and Accountability in Africa: National and Regional...
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the chapters, as well as briefly highlighting the relevant normative frameworks applicable to the issues addressed in this special edition journal. The authors have addressed structural, institutional, and individual gaps and challenges in the refugee protection sphere and have raised concerns about t...
This chapter explores the role of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in the conceptualization, interpretation, and monitoring of the WPS agenda. To do so, it examines its policy activities, including the adoption of resolutions on thematic or specific country situations, and also through the reports emanating from selected Commissions of Inquiry. Moreo...
Violence against women has been a topic engaging feminist legal scholars for a long time, with a renewed feminist advocacy emerging to highlight sexual violence experienced by women during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the early 1990s. One of the most important legal developments to emerge from this has been the creatio...
The political rhetoric on women, peace and security, is challenged by the minimal or lack of practical realisation of laudable goals on gender equality; inclusion and participation of women in peace and security negotiations and processes; and the need to change the reality on the ground, as reflected in numerous standard-setting documents, includi...
This article focuses on violence against women as a barrier to the realisation of women's civil, political, economic, social, cultural and developmental rights, as well as the consequences of this for the effective exercise of citizenship. The value of adopting a citizenship lens, identifying the nexus between violence against women and human right...
Violence against women has been a topic engaging feminist legal scholars for a long time, with a renewed feminist advocacy emerging to highlight sexual violence experienced by women during the armed conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the early 1990s. One of the most important legal developments to emerge from this has been the creatio...
HRC 2014 report Twenty years of normativity without legality in the UN on VAW
The United States has uncritically exported its law and policy on gender violence without regard to effectiveness or cultural context, and without asking what we might learn from efforts to combat gender violence in the rest of the world. This book asks that question. Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide docum...
South Africa is a country that reflects the dilemma and difficulties faced by a developing country which is attempting to achieve gender equality and the protection of women’s human rights in the face of a massive legacy of both racial and gender discrimination and oppression. The promotion of gender equality and the prohibition of gender-based dis...
The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has for nearly two decades observed and paid attention to the responsibility of the State in general and to the principle of due diligence in particular. The due diligence standard serves as a tool for rights holders to hold States accountable, by providing an assessment framework f...
Globally violence against women is a systemic and widespread problem. Despite the recognition of such violence as a violation of human rights, its numerous manifestations and increasing prevalence rates are a source of concern. The mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences has over...
As feminist critical social scholars, we understand our primary task is to make visible the way that hegemony functions to assert, reproduce, and maintain unequal power relations. We understand hegemony to refer to circumstances where meanings are so embedded in social relations and the social structure that representational and institutionalized p...
In 2006, the South African Constitutional Court found a constitutional right to participate in the legislative process in the case of Doctors for Life, Case CCT 12/05 (decided 17 August 2006). In this article, we argue that, first, legislation is better when legislators are required to invite and attend to public input, and, second, citizenship is...
Bringing personal status laws into conformity with international and constitutional equal rights provisions is an imperative for the protection of women's human rights. Multicultural secular democracies face a challenge in effectively and meaningfully guaranteeing the right to equality and the right to religion and culture. Currently, Muslim marria...
* South Africa is a country that reflects the dilemma and difficulties faced by a developing country which is attempting to achieve gender equality and the protection of women's human rights in the face of a massive legacy of both racial and gender discrimination and oppression. The promotion of gender equality and the prohibition of gender-based d...
Both theoretically and constitutionally, South Africa is a secular state with many religious and non-religious groupings co-existing with each other. The reality is that there is widespread observance of both religious and customary law — despite a lack of or limited recognition thereof under the apartheid government. The non-recognition of other f...
Victim support groups, victims, the courts, the police and professional agencies must work together, ANSHU PADAYACHEE and RASHIDA MANJOO argue, if strategies for dealing with domestic violence are to work in the interests of the victim. An area of concern is the flawed Prevention of Family Violence Act (1993)
