International Human Rights Law and Structural Discrimination The Example of Violence against Women /

• Main Author: Henn, Elisabeth Veronika (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 280
• Subjects: Human rights.; Social justice.; International law.; Women.; Human Rights.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations.; Women's Studies.

International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal research has paid little attention...