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Power Interrupted : Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
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ISBN: 9780295995267 9780295806396 0295806397 9780295995250 0295995254 0295995262 Year: 2016 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,


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Stereotypes and human rights law
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ISBN: 9781780683683 1780683685 9781780685458 1780685459 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Intersentia,

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Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples, taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'. Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies - including the European and inter-American human rights courts, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - voice concerns about stereotyping and warn States not to enforce harmful stereotypes. Human rights bodies thus appear to be starting to realise what social psychologists discovered a long time ago: that stereotypes underlie inequality and discrimination. Despite their relevance and their legal momentum, however, stereotypes have so far received little attention from human rights law scholars. This volume is the first one to broadly analyse stereotypes as a human rights issue. The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds - such as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human rights monitoring bodies, including the United Nations human rights treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of Europe and the inter-American system.

Using human rights to change tradition : traditional practices harmful to women's reproductive health in sub-saharan Africa
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ISBN: 9050952267 9789050952262 Year: 2002 Volume: 13 Publisher: Antwerpen: Intersentia,

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Traditional practices (such as female circumcision, various birthing methods and early pregnancy) expected of, and maintained by, women in sub-Saharan African continue relatively unabated. So, too, does the harm these pose to women, including increased risks of maternal mortality, reproductive ill-health and transmission of HIV/AIDS. Human rights standards and discourses have been used as a means towards their end. This study seeks to establish the strengths and weaknesses of the human rights approach within the specific context of sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on women as a group and their reproductive health.


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Mensenrechten tussen retoriek en realiteit
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ISBN: 9054620668 9789054620662 Year: 1994 Volume: 14 Publisher: Gent Mys & Breesch

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Gender, planning and human rights
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ISBN: 0415154952 0415154944 0203011007 1280195657 1134732597 9780203011003 9780415154949 9780415154956 9786610195657 661019565X 9781134732593 9781280195655 9781134732548 9781134732586 1134732589 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies, and identify ways to integrate human rights issues in planning, development and policy making. The book uses case studies from UK, Israel, Canada, Singapore, USA, Peru, European Union, Australia and the Czech Republic.

Trafficking of human beings from a human rights perspective : towards a holistic approach
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ISBN: 9004154051 9786611400682 1281400688 9047411064 9789004154056 9789047411062 9781281400680 6611400680 Year: 2006 Volume: 89 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff,

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Trafficking of human beings is a widespread practice in the modern world. It has been estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children, are trafficked worldwide each year. The rapid growth in trafficking of human beings and its transnational nature have prompted the international community to take urgent action, and a major step was taken when the United Nations adopted the Protocol to Prevent and Suppress Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Trafficking Protocol), attached to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (Organised Crime Convention) in December 2000. Yet addressing the human rights aspects of the phenomenon has proven to be difficult in practice, and so far a holistic approach which addresses wider issues surrounding the phenomenon has not been taken. The purpose of this book is to go further than simply recognising that trafficking is a human rights issue. It attempts to establish a human rights framework to analyse and address the act by identifying applicable human rights norms and principles from the beginning to the end of the trafficking process, such as the rights to life, work, health, as well as freedom from torture and slavery. It then articulates key obligations under international human rights law, including the obligations to prohibit trafficking, punish traffickers, protect victims, and to address the causes and the consequences of the practice.

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Forced labor --- Women --- Children --- Transnational crime --- Human trafficking --- Victims of crimes --- Human rights --- Prevention --- International cooperation --- Crimes against --- Law and legislation --- Protection --- Law --- Social problems --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Social policy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- United Nations --- European Union --- Poland --- Thailand --- Great Britain --- Transnational crime. --- Human trafficking. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Crime victims --- Victimology --- Victims --- Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) --- People trafficking --- Sex trafficking --- Traffic in persons --- Trafficking in human beings --- Trafficking in persons --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Sex crimes --- Multinational crime --- Transborder crime --- Crime --- Crimes against women --- Femicide --- Women victims of crime --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Employees --- International cooperation. --- Crimes against. --- Protection. --- Forced labor - Prevention - International cooperation --- Women - Crimes against --- Children - Crimes against --- Human trafficking - Law and legislation --- Victims of crimes - Protection --- White slave traffic (Human trafficking) --- White slavery (Human trafficking) --- Offenses against the person --- International --- International organisations --- Government policy --- Legislation --- Book

The Human Rights Watch global report on women's human rights
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ISBN: 0300065469 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Human Rights Watch

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Non-discrimination and equality in the view of the UN human rights treaty bodies.
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ISBN: 9050955002 9789050955003 Year: 2005 Publisher: Antwerpen Intersentia

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Human rights --- United Nations --- Human rights. --- Actions and defenses. --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Actions et défenses --- Rules and practice. --- Equality before the law. --- Discrimination. --- #RBIB:gift.2005 --- 342.7 --- Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- 342.7 Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- Actions et défenses --- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women --- Discrimination --- Equality before the law --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Equal rights --- Civil rights --- Justice --- Equal rights amendments --- Bias --- Interpersonal relations --- Minorities --- Toleration --- Law and legislation --- United Nations. --- UN --- UNO --- Naciones Unidas --- Nations Unies --- ONU --- Organisation des Nations Unies --- Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Obʺedinennykh Nat︠s︡iĭ --- OON --- Vereinigte Nationen --- Umot ha-meʼuḥadot --- Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych --- ONZ --- Forente nasjoner --- Forenede nationer --- FN --- Förenta nationerna --- Gaertʻianebuli erebi --- Organização das Nações Unidas --- PBB --- Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa --- Kokusai Rengō --- Kokuren --- ENSZ --- Egyesült Nemzetek Szövetsége --- Birleșmiș Milletler Teșkilâtı --- Birlăşmiş Millătăr Tăşkilatı --- Birlashgan Millatlar Tashkiloti --- BMT --- YK --- Yhdistyneet kansakunnat --- OUN --- Organizacija Ujedinjenih Nacija --- NU --- Nazioni Unite --- OSN --- Organizace spojených národů --- Sāzmān-i Milal-i Muttafiq --- Bangsa² Bersatu --- Organización de las Naciones Unidas --- Ühinenud Rahvaste Organisatsioon --- ÜRO --- Organismos tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn --- Umoja wa Mataifa --- Vereinten Nationen --- Vereinte Nationen --- Hayʼat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- Verenigde Naties --- VN --- Organizația Națiunilor Unite --- Um --- Lien ho kuo --- OKB --- Organizata e Kombeve të Bashkuara --- Lian he guo --- U.N. --- Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- OĒE --- Hēnōmena Ethnē --- Organizácia Spojených Národov --- Sahaprachāchāt --- Națiunile Unite --- Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ na obedinenite nat︠s︡ii --- Organismos Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn --- Manẓūmat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- AAN --- Arhanizatsyi︠a︡ Ab'i︠a︡dnanykh Natsyĭ --- Nações Unidas --- Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Ob'i︠e︡dnanykh Nat︠s︡iĭ --- O.Ē.E. --- ʻOngkān Sahaprachāchāt --- Sjuninejal Konob'laq --- Sāzmān-i Milal-i Muttaḥid --- Milal-i Muttaḥid --- Nėgdsėn U̇ndėstniĭ Baĭguullaga --- NUB --- Rāshṭrasaṃgha --- או״מ --- أمم المتحدة --- الأمم المتحدة --- سازمان ملل متحد --- 国際連合 --- 联合囯 --- 聯合國 --- United Nations Organization --- Liên Hiệp Quó̂c --- Liên Hợp Quó̂c --- LHQ --- Kula Samagga --- YūʼAṅʻnʻ --- 联合国 --- Организация на обединените нации --- Организация Объединённых Наций --- Human Rights. --- DROITS DE L'HOMME --- LUTTE CONTRE LA DISCRIMINATION --- EGALITE --- O.N.U. --- DROIT INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC --- DROIT A LA NON-DISCRIMINATION --- DROIT DES GENS --- SOURCES --- TRAITES --- Equal opportunities --- International --- International conventions --- Anti-discrimination laws --- Legislation --- Book

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