Due diligence and its application to protect women from violence
By: edited by Carin Benninger-Budel.
Contributors: Benninger-Budel, Carin.
Publisher: Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004162938
Subjects: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Sex discrimination against women; Women -- Violence against; Women -- Crimes against; Women's rights; Human rights; Human trafficking
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The due diligence standard : what does it entail for women's rights / Yakin Erturk; title: The history and development of the due diligence standard in international law and its role in the protection of women against violence / Joanna Bourke-Martignoni; title: Preventing violence against women : the due diligence standard with respect to the obligation to banish gender stereotypes on the grounds of Article 5 (a) of the CEDAW Convention / Rikki Holtmaat; title: Emerging human rights obligations for non-state actors / Ineke Boerefijn and Eva Naezer; title: Due diligence and the power of economic players /  Helen O'Connell; title: Due diligence and the fight against gender-based violence in the inter-American system / Elizabeth A.H. Abi-Mershed; title: Applying the due diligence principle in Asia Pacific / Lisa Pusey; title: South Africa's response to domestic violence / Dee Smythe; title: Violence against women by non-state actors, a responsibility for the state under human rights law : Amnesty International's work on domestic violence / Lisa Gormley; title: Spain : more rights, but the obstacles remain / Maria Naredo Molero; title: Human trafficking : a brief introduction to issues of responsibility and accountability / Anne Gallagher; title: Problems with the implementation of the due diligence standard from the perspective of countries of origin in the OsCE region / Shivaun Scanlan; title: Human trafficking in Germany / Nivedita Prasad and Babette Rohner; title: Violence against women, cultural/religious traditions and the international standard of due diligence / Judith Wyttenbach; title: Violence against women legitimised by arguments of 'culture' - thoughts from a Pakistani perspective / Farida Shaheed; title: Controlling women's sexuality, sustaining dominant culture(s), legitimising gender-based violence : the case for due diligence / Susana T. Fried; title: Violence against women in armed conflict  / Theodor Winkler.