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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.

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This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. Rather than assuming a trickle-down effect, the author discusses specific methods which have made CEDAW resonate. These methods include attempts to influence the international level by clarifying the meaning of women’s rights and strengthening the Convention’s monitoring procedure, and building connections between international and domestic contexts that enable diverse actors to engage with CEDAW. This analysis shows that while the Convention has worldwide impact, this impact is fundamentally dependent on context-specific values and agency. Hence, rather than thinking of women’s rights exclusively as normative content, Zwingel suggests to see them as in process. This book will especially appeal to students and scholars interested in transnational feminism and gender and global governance.

Political science. --- International organization. --- Sociology. --- Social justice. --- Human rights. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Science. --- International Organization. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- Gender Studies. --- Women (International law) --- Women's rights. --- United Nations. --- Rights of women --- Women --- Women's rights --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- CEDAW --- CEDAW Committee --- Komite PBB Untuk Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Sīdāw --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Organization) --- Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Sīḍō --- Yŏsŏng Ch'abyŏl Ch'ŏlp'ye Wiwŏnhoe --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Equality --- Justice --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Federation, International --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International administration --- International federation --- Organization, International --- World federation --- World government --- World order --- World organization --- Congresses and conventions --- International relations --- Peace --- Political science --- International agencies --- International cooperation --- Security, International --- World politics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- State, The --- Psychological aspects --- International law --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. Årsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, Årsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.

Religious issues & debates --- Sociology --- Law. --- United Nations. --- human rights. --- religion. --- CEDAW --- CEDAW Committee --- Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women --- Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Organization) --- Komite PBB Untuk Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Sīdāw --- Sīḍō --- Yŏsŏng Ch'abyŏl Ch'ŏlp'ye Wiwŏnhoe --- CERD --- CERD Committee --- Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial de Naciones Unidas-CERD --- United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination --- UN-Menschenrechtsausschuss --- MRK (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights --- HRC (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee (United Nations) --- CRC --- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child --- Committee on the Rights of the Child (United Nations) --- Comité des droits de l'enfant --- Comité sobre los Derechos del Niño de Naciones Unidas --- Comité Internacional de los Derechos del Niño del Sistema de Naciones Unidas

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This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. It reflects the developments during the decade following the publication of the first edition in 2012, which has also seen a notable rise in individual complaints (more than 85), ten new General Recommendations, and six new inquiry procedures as well as numerousstatements, partly in conjunction with other UN human rights bodies. 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'. At a time when the backlashagainst women's human rights and the concept of gender-based discrimination is increasingly challenged by governments and powerful societal actors, the Commentary is an important instrument to hold all state powers to account on their international obligations under the Convention.The Commentary analyses the interpretation 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, including 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 underthe Optional Protocol (individual complaints and inquiries), 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 theConvention and its embedding in the international law of human rights as well as the most recent challenges to women's human rights worldwide.

Women's rights. --- United Nations. --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women --- Women's rights --- CEDAW --- CEDAW Committee --- Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women --- Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Organization) --- Komite PBB Untuk Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Sīdāw --- Sīḍō --- Yŏsŏng Ch'abyŏl Ch'ŏlp'ye Wiwŏnhoe --- CEDAW Kanabhenaśana --- Convenção sobre a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer --- Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes --- Da Ṣhażo pah Wṛānde da Ṭolo Tawpīrūno dalah Minżah Wṛalo Taṛūn --- Fifanarahana Iraisam-Pirenena Momba ny Fanafoanana ny Endri-Panavakavahana Rehatra Miantraika Amin'ny Vehivavy --- Ittifāqīyah al-Dawlīyah li-Manʻ al-Tamyīz Didda al-Marʼah --- Ittifāqīyat al-Qaḍāʼ ʻalá Jamīʻ Ashkāl al-Tamyīz Ḍidda al-Marʼah --- Josei sabetsu teppai jōyakuto --- Joshi ni taisuru arayuru keitai no sabetsu no teppai ni kansuru jōyaku --- Joshi sabetsu teppai jōyaku --- Kaikkinaisen naisten syrjinnän poistamista koskeva yleissopimus --- Konvencija o odpravi vseh oblik diskriminacije žensk --- Konvensi PBB Tentang Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Wanita --- Konvensi Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Konvensi Wanita --- Konvention om avskaffande av all slags Diskriminering av Kvinnor --- Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o likvidat︠s︡ii vsekh form diskriminat︠s︡ii v otnoshenii zhenshchin --- Kunvānsiyūn-i rafʻ-i har gūnah-i tabʻīz̤ ʻalayh-i zanān --- Kunvānsiyūn-i rafʻ-i kullīyah-i tabʻīz̤āt ʻalayh-i zanān --- Mahilā Upara Hune Savai Prakāraka Bhedabhāva Nirmūlana Sambandhī Mahāsandhī --- Nārīra prati Birājamāna Sakala Prakāla Baishamya Bilopa Sananda --- Siḍao Kanabhenaśana --- Siḍao Sananda --- UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women --- United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Discrimination sexuelle --- Droits des femmes. --- Droit. --- Nations Unies. --- Nations Unies.‏ ‎ --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women (International law)