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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Analytical Scope and International Legal Framework
• Basic Terms and Concepts
• The Legal Frameworks Applicable to Violence Against Women
• Part II: State Responsibility for Violence Against Women: Transformative Potential of Primary and Secondary Human Rights Obligations
• Primary Obligations: Positive Human Rights Obligations in Context
• Parameters to Establish the Existence and Extent of Positive Obligations
• Measures Against Gender-Based Violence
• Secondary Obligations: Individual Reparation and Beyond
• Findings.