Domestic violence and international law
By: Bonita Meyersfeld
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781841139111
Description: "Domestic Violence and International Law argues that certain forms of domestic violence are a violation of international human rights law. The argument is based on the international law principle that, where a state fails to protect a vulnerable group of people from harm, whether perpetrated by the state or private actors, it has breached its obligations to protect against human rights violation. This book provides a comprehensive legal analysis for why a state should be accountable in international law for allowing women to suffer extreme forms of domestic violence and how this can help individual victims. It is irrelevant that the violence is perpetrated by individuals and not state actors such as soldiers or the police. The state's breach of its responsibility is in its failure to act effectively in domestic violence cases; and in its silent endorsement of the violence, it becomes complicit. The book seeks to reformulate academic and political debate on domestic violence and the responsibility of states under international law. It is based on empirical data combined with an honest assessment of whether or not domestic violence is recognised by the international community as a human rights violation."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Domestic violence as a violation of international human rights law; title: Freedom from systemic intimate violence : the human right and corresponding state obligation; title: State responsibility in relation to systemic intimate violence; title: The benefits of international law for victims of systemic intimate violence.