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Oxford University Press
23 July 2013
This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. The Convention is a key international human rights instrument and the only one exclusively addressed to women. It has been described as the United Nations' 'landmark treaty in the struggle for women's rights'. The Commentary describes the application of the Convention through the work of its monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It comprises detailed analyses of the Preamble and each article of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol. It also includes a separate chapter on the cross-cutting substantive issue of violence against women. The sources relied on are the treaty language and the general recommendations, concluding observations and case law under the Optional Protocol, through which the Committee has interpreted and applied the Convention. Each chapter is self-contained but the Commentary is conceived of as an integral whole. The book also includes an introduction which provides an overview of the Convention and its embedding in the international law of human rights.

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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 43mm
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9780199682249
ISBN 10:   0199682240
Series:   Oxford Commentaries on International Law
Pages:   794
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1: Christine Chinkin and Marsha A. Freeman: Introduction 2: Christine Chinkin and Beate Rudolf: Preamble 3: Andrew Byrnes: Article 1 4: Andrew Byrnes: Article 2 5: Christine Chinkin: Article 3 6: Frances Raday: Article 4 7: Rikki Holtmaat: Article 5 8: Janie Chuang: Article 6 9: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 7 10: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 8 11: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 9 12: Fareda Banda: Article 10 13: Frances Raday: Article 11 14: Rebecca J. Cook and Veronica Undurraga: Article 12 15: Beate Rudolf: Article 13 16: Fareda Banda: Article 14 17: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 15 18: Marsha A. Freeman: Article 16 19: Christine Chinkin: Violence Against Women 20: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 17 21: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 18 22: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 19 23: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 20 24: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 21 25: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 22 26: Andrew Byrnes: Article 23 27: Andrew Byrnes: Article 24 28: Susann Kroworsch: Article 25 29: Susann Kroworsch: Article 26 30: Susann Kroworsch: Article 27 31: Jane Connors: Article 28 32: Susann Kroworsch: Article 29 33: Susann Kroworsch: Article 30 34: Jane Connors: Optional Protocol

"Marsha A. Freeman is Director of the International Women's Rights Action Watch and a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. IWRAW is an international women's human rights resource centre and pioneered the shadow reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Dr. Freeman is the editor of Assessing the Status of Women, a guide to using the CEDAW Convention, and author of Women's Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, a manual for working with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School. Christine Chinkin has law degrees from the universities of London and Sydney and Yale Law School. She has taught international law in Singapore, Australia and the United States as well as in the United Kingdom. She is a member of Matrix Chambers and the author of many articles on international human rights law, especially relating to women's human rights. She has been a consultant to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Since 1 January 2010, Professor Beate Rudolf has been the Director of the German Institute for Human Rights. Prior to that, she was a junior professor for public law and equality law at the faculty of law of Freie Universität Berlin and director of the research project ""Public International Law Standards for Governance in Weak and Failing States"" within the Research Center ""Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"". Her research focuses on human rights and legal principles on state structures under public international law, European law and German constitutional law as well as from a comparative law perspective."

Reviews for The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary

Kudos to all the contributors to this fine resource, as well as to the intrepid editors who brought this behemoth task to fruition. The iCommentaryr will serve human rights scholars and students, gender activists, policy makers, and the wider international law community for decades to come. * Lisa R. Pruitt, IntLawGrrls Blog *


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