Conceptualizing Femicide as a Human Rights Violation
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80392-043-6 (ISBN)
Angela Hefti challenges the common definition of femicide, extending it beyond the killing of women due to their gender to include elements of victim blame, sexual abuse, forced marriage and delayed investigations by authorities. Chapters address femicide in the context of the African, Inter-American and European regional and universal human rights systems. Case studies from Iraq, Nigeria and Mexico provide a fundamental understanding of the multidimensional and worldwide nature of femicide. Spanning several key academic debates, the book incorporates underlying feminist legal theory and approaches pertaining to the subordination of women and girls in society, arguing that femicide should qualify as an autonomous human rights violation.
Providing an impetus for further research on femicide, particularly on state responsibility for crimes committed by private actors, this book will be a crucial resource for academics in human rights and humanitarian law, criminal law and justice. The book will also be highly valuable to activists, practitioners, and lawyers with an interest in advancing aspects of femicide in international human rights law.
Angela Hefti, LL.M., Yale Law School, US and PhD, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Contents: 1. Introduction to the concept of femicide PART I FEMICIDE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 2. Femicide and (the laws of) war 3. Femicide and crimes against humanity 4. Femicide: Genocide by another name CONCLUSION TO PART I PART II FEMICIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 5. Femicide, the UN system and CEDAW 6. Femicide and the European human rights system 7. Femicide and the inter-American human rights system 8. Femicide and the African human rights system CONCLUSION TO PART II PART III A HUMAN RIGHTS CONCEPT OF FEMICIDE AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY 9. Conceptualizing femicide as a human rights violation 10. No more impunity: Femicide and state responsibility 11. Conclusion to Conceptualiziing Femicide as a Human Rights Violation Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.06.2022 |
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| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80392-043-2 / 1803920432 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80392-043-6 / 9781803920436 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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