Women's Human Rights

CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

Anne Hellum, Henriette Sinding Aasen, Anne Hellum, Henriette Sinding Aasen

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107034624
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107273368
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in comparison and interaction with other equality and anti-discrimination mechanisms. The studies demonstrate how state and non-state actors have invoked, adopted or resisted the CEDAW and related instruments in different legal, political, economic and socio-cultural contexts, and how the various international, regional and national regimes have drawn inspiration and learned from each other.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Women’s Human Rights
• Title
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Potential added value of the CEDAW
• Part II Actual added value of the CEDAW: socio-economic rights
• Part III The CEDAW in national law
• 11 The implementation of the CEDAW in Australia: success, trials, tribulations and continuing struggle
• 12 The Canadian experience with the CEDAW: all women’s rights are human rights – a case of treaties synergy
• 13 India’s CEDAW story
• 14 Judicial education on the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Nepal
• 15 From ratification to implementation: ‘domesticating’ the CEDAW in state, government and society. A case study of Pakistan
• 16 Zimbabwe and CEDAW compliance: pursuing women’s equality in fits and starts
• 17 THE CEDAW after all these years: firmly rooted in Dutch clay?
• 18 The CEDAW in the UK
• 19 Domestication of the CEDAW in France: from paradoxes to ambivalences and back again
• 20 Rise and fall of the CEDAW in Finland: time to reclaim its impetus
• 21 Making space and giving voice: the CEDAW in Norwegian law
• Conclusions
• Index