Women, Islam, and international law within the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
By: by Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko.
Series: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies -- v. 8
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9789004171442
Subjects: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women -- (1980); Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law); Civil rights (Islamic law); Women's rights
Description: Islam and women's human rights entertain an uneasy relationsship. Much has been written on the subject. This book addresses it from a new perspective. It attempts to define some basis for constructive dialogue and interaction in the context of international law and, more precisely, in the context of participation of many Muslim States in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Having discovered a constructive potential in both Islam and women's human rights, the author concentrates on the role which international law should play in promoting dialogue and constructive interaction. This is done mainly through analysis of the regime of reservations and of the practice of reservations developed in the context of Muslim States' participation in the CEDAW.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where and what are women's rights for one and for the other; title: Reservations to treaties : some theoretical issues; title: Practice developed in the context of reservations to the CEDAW based on Islam; title: Promoting the dialogue.