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Oxford University Press
31 January 2012
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.

Edited by:   , , ,
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 248mm,  Width: 176mm,  Spine: 47mm
Weight:   1.496kg
ISBN:   9780199565061
ISBN 10:   0199565066
Series:   Oxford Commentaries on International Law
Pages:   792
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1: Introduction 2: Preamble 3: Article 1 4: Article 2 5: Article 3 6: Article 4 7: Article 5 8: Article 6 9: Article 7 10: Article 8 11: Article 9 12: Article 10 13: Article 11 14: Article 12 15: Article 13 16: Article 14 17: Article 15 18: Article 16 19: Article 17 20: Article 18 21: Article 19 22: Article 20 23: Article 21 24: Article 22 25: Article 23 26: Article 24 27: Article 25 28: Article 26 29: Article 27 30: Article 28 31: Article 29 32: Article 30 33: Violence Against Women 34: 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, Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf is 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


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