GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS
– LW 456 – Semester 2
Irish Centre for Human Rights
School of Law
Academic Year 2013-2014
Course Outline
Objective
The course aims at providing students with the knowledge of the
relationship between gender and human rights. It explores origins,
development and challenges of integrating gender into human rights
law discourse and practice. Focusing on international protection of
women’s human rights as an example, the course introduces students
to relevant international bodies and instruments. It also introduces
students to the critical analysis of law through the study of feminist
legal methods within the context of women’s rights protection.
Name
Lecturer(s)
Times
Overall Learning
Outcomes
Methodology
Office
Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui
Krivenko
Ext
Room 32098
209
ICHR
E-mail
Ekaterina.yahyaoui@nuigal
way.ie
Term Two
Day
Time
Venue
Lectures:
Office hours:
Thursday
Thursday
10 am to 1 pm
3 pm to 5 pm
Irish Centre for Human
Rights
Upon the completion of the course students should be able to:
 Identify relevant applicable provisions of international
instruments;
 Determine the most appropriate provision to use in a particular
case;
 Identify lacunas and shortcomings of existing international
instruments;
 Identify possible ways for improvement;
 Demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to larger social and
political implications of their choices with respect to gender and
human rights.
Each subject is introduced through a short lecture presentation. The
students’ understanding of the subject is further developed through
participatory discussions based on required readings. Active
participation in discussions is essential to the successful acquisition of
knowledge and analytical skills.
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Students will be required to make a 10-15min presentation on on of the
required readings. Prior to the presentation they shall distribute a 1-2
page summary. More details about the format of presentations will be
provided during the first class.
In order to familiarise students with the complexity and practical
implications of certain issues short documentary films followed by a
discussion will be used where appropriate.
Programme(s)
Course Material
Essential Texts
Supplementary
Texts
Assessment
LL.M. programmes, full-time and part-time.
Required weekly readings form the basis for the course. These
readings are either accessible on the internet or at the university
library. These readings include relevant international instruments, case
law as well as scholarly articles. Students are encouraged to
supplement these required readings with some material mentioned
under “additional readings”.
Relevant international instruments, case-law and articles in
international journals as indicated for each course (see below)
International Law Journals, weekly readings (see below)
Presentation and participation in class discussions: 20%
Final essay: 80%
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WEEK 1
DEFINING HUMAN: W HO ARE HUMAN BEINGS? LEGAL DEFINITIONS AND CATEGORIES.
 Reasonable person and its perils
FEMINIST LEGAL THEORIES
 Mainstream theories of public international law
 General feminist methodologies and their application in public international
law
 Distinction between public and private sphere
 Essentialisation
Required readings
FRASER, Arvonne, “Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's
Human Rights,” 21 Human Rights Quarterly (1999) pp. 853-906
Make a web-search on sex verification in sports/Olympics. Read two reports of
your choice. Think about following questions:
 What does it mean to be a man or a woman?
 If the test would be applicable in other areas of life will everybody
qualify either as a man or as a woman?
 Why should this distinction matter?
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, CHINKIN, Christine, W RIGHT, Shelley, “Feminist
Approaches to International Law”, 85 American Journal of International
Law (1991) pp. 613-645
TESON, Fernando R. “Feminism and International Law: A Reply”, 25 Va. J. Int'l L.
(1992) pp. 647-684
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, “The Hidden Gender of International Law”, 16 Temp. Int’l &
Comp. L. J. (2002) pp. 93-102
Additional readings:
BARTLETT, Katharine Т. “Feminist Legal Methods”, 103 Harvard Law Review
(1989) pp. 829-888
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, “Feminist Methods in International Law”, 93 American
Journal of International Law (1999) pp. 379-394
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, CHINKIN, Christine, W RIGHT, Shelley, “Feminist
approaches to international law: reflections from another century”. In:
Buss, Doris and Manji, Ambreena, (eds.) International law: modern
feminist approaches. Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd., 2005, pp. 17-47
FELLMETH, Aaron X. “Feminism and International Law: Theory, Methodology, and
Substantive Reform”, 22 Human Rights Quarterly (2000), pp. 658-733
GUNNING, Isabelle R. “Arrogant Perceptions, World-Travelling and Multicultural
Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries”, 23 Columbia Human
Rights Law Review (1991-1992) pp. 189-247
MARSHALL, Jill, Humanity, Freedom and Feminism, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
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ORFORD, Anne, “Feminism, Imperialism and the Mission of International Law”, 71
Nordic Journal of International Law (2002) pp. 275-296
ROMANY, Celina, “Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private
Distinction in International Human Rights Law”, 6 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (1993)
pp. 87-125
V. PETERSON and L. PARISI, “Are women human? Not just an academic question”
in T. Evans (ed.) Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal,
Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 132-160
WEEK 2
FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF BASIC NOTIONS OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
 Sources of public international law
 Subjects of public international law
 Prohibition of the use of force and humanitarian intervention
Required readings
BUCHANAN, Ruth, JOHNSON, Rebecca, “The ‘Unforgiven’ Sources of International
Law: Nation-Building, Violence and Gender in the West(ern)” in D. Buss, A.
Manji (eds.) International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches. Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2005, pp. 131-158
OTTO, Diane “The Exile of Inclusion: Reflections on Gender Issues in
International Law over the Last Decade”, 10 Melbourne Journal of
International Law (2009), pp. 11-26
UN Security Council Resolution 1325, S/RES/1325(2000) adopted 31 October
2000.
UN Security Council Resolution 1820, S/RES/1820(2008) adopted 19 June 2008
The Peacekeepers and the Women
A film by Karin Jurschick
Germany, 2003, 80 minutes,
Additional readings
ABREAU, Veronica C. “Women’s Bodies as Battlefields in the Former Yugoslavia: An
Argument for the Prosecution of Sexual Terrorism as Genocide for the
Recognition of Genocidal Sexual Terrorism as a Violation of Jus Cogens under
International Law”, Geo. J. Gender & L. (2005) pp. 1-20
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, CHINKIN, Christine, “The Gender of Jus Cogens”, 15
Hum. Rts. Q. (1993) pp. 63-76
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, CHINKIN, Christine, The Boundaries of International Law,
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary, CHINKIN, Christine, “Sex, Gender, and September 11”, 96
Am. J. Int’l L. (2002) pp. 600-605
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CHINKIN, Christine, “The State that Acts Alone: Bully, Good Samaritan or
Iconoclast?”, 11 European Journal of International Law (2000) pp. 31-41
DIXON, R., “Rape as a Crime in International Humanitarian Law: Where to from here?”,
13 European Journal of International Law (2002) pp. 697-719
ENGLE, Karen “Female Subjects of Public International Law: Human Rights and the
Exotic Other Female”, 26 New Eng. L. Rev. (1991) pp. 1509-1526
KAPUR, Rama, “The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the ‘Native’
Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics”, 15 Harv.
Hum. Rts. J. (2002) pp. 1-37
KAPUR, Rama, “Un-Veiling Women's Rights in the War on Terrorism”, 9 Duke J.
Gender L. & Pol’y (2002) pp. 211-225
KNOP, Karen, “Re/Statements: Feminism and State Sovereignty in International Law”, 3
Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. (1993), pp. 293-344
KNOP, Karen, “Relational Nationality: on Gender and Nationality in International Law”,
in Citizenship today: global perspectives and practices, 2001, pp. 89-126
KU, C. “Treaties and Gender Bias: What frame(s) work(s)?” in Contemporary
International Law Issues: Opportunities at a Time of Momentous Change,
The Hague, 1993, p. 414-418
MITCHELL, D.S. “Prohibition of Rape in International Humanitarian Law as a Norm of
Jus Cogens: Clarifying the Doctrine”, 15 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. (2004) pp.
219-257
ORFORD, Anne Reading humanitarian intervention: human rights and the use of force in
international law, Cambridge: CUP, 2003
SPIKE PETERSON, V. Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International
Relations Theory, Boulder, 1992
On women and gender in international humanitarian law and peacekeeping see
also the special issue of the International Review of the Red Cross 2010,
No. 877
WEEK 3
FEMINIST
CRITIQUES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION
AND BEYOUND
Required readings
CHARLESWORTH, Hilary “Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and
Human Rights in the United Nations”, Harv. Hum Rts. J. (2005) pp. 1-18
OTTO, Dianne, “Lost in Translation: Re-scripting the Sexed Subjects of
International Human Rights Law,” in Anne Orford, ed., International Law
and its Others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 318-356
OTTO, Dianne, “International Human Rights Law: Towards Rethinking
Sex/Gender Dualism and Asymmetry” in M. Davies, V. Munro, eds., A
Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory, Ashgate, 2013, available
at http://ssrn.com
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Additional readings
ANKER, Deborah E. “Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm”, 15
Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (2002) pp. 133-154
BAER, Susanne, “Citizenship in Europe and the Construction of Gender by Law in
the European Charter of Fundamental Rights”, in Karen Knop (ed.),
Gender and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 97103
LACEY, Nicola, “Feminist Legal Theory and the Rights of Women” in Karen Knop
(ed.), Gender and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003,
pp. 13-30
STARK, Barbara, “After/Word (s): Violations of Human Dignity and Postmodern
International Law”, 27 Yale J. Int’l L. (2002), pp. 315-362
WEEK 4
INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR PROTECTION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS
 Historical development
 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women and its Protocol
o Overview
o Work of the Committee
 Other relevant instruments and bodies
Required readings
FREEMAN, Marsha A., CHINKIN, Christine and RUDOLF, Beate, “Introduction” in
Freeman, Marsha A., Chinkin, Christine and Rudolf, Beate (eds.) The UN
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women. A Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2012, pp. 2-34.
DONNER, Laura A. “Gender Bias in Drafting International Discrimination
Conventions: The 1979 Women’s Convention Compared with the 1965
Racial Convention”, 24 California Western International Law Journal
(1993-1994), pp. 241-254
Explore and make yourself familiar with the web-site of the Committee on the Elimination of All
Forms
of
Discrimination
Against
Women:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/index.htm
Understand the overall structure and most important provisions of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted
by GA Res. 34/180 on 18 December 1979, U.N. Doc. A/34/46, entered
into force 3 Sept. 1981
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, adopted by GA Res. 54/4 on 15 October 1999, entered into
force 22 December 2000.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by GA
Res. 2106 (XX) on 21 December 1965, entered into force 4 Jan. 1969
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Additional readings
ALBERTSON FINEMAN, Martha, “Equality Across Legal Cultures: The Role for
International Human Rights”, 27 Thomas Jefferson Law Review (2004) pp.
1-13
ASKIN, Kelly D., KOENIG, Dorean M. (eds.), Women and International Human
Rights Law, Vol. I-III, Ardsley: Transnational Publishers, 1999-2001
COOK, Rebecca. J. (ed.), Human Rights of Women: National and International
Perspectives, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994
DELLER ROSS, Susan (ed.) Women’s Human Rights. The International and
Comparative Law Casebook. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
EMERTON, Robyn et al. (ed.), Women’s Human Rights : Leading International and
National Cases, London: Cavendish Publishing, 2005
FREEMAN, Marsha A., CHINKIN, Christine and RUDOLF, Beate (eds.) The UN
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women. A Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2012
KNOP, Karen (ed.), Gender and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2003
KOH, Harold H. “Why America Should Ratify the Women's Rights Treaty (CEDAW)”,
34 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. (2002) pp. 263-276
REHOF, Lars Adams, Guide to Travaux Préparatoires of the United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women. The Hage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1993
MAHALINGAM, Ravi “Women's Rights and the War on Terror: Why the United States
Should View the Ratification of CEDAW as an Important Step in the Conflict
with Militant Islamic Fundamentalism”, 34 Cal. W. Int'l L. J. (2003) pp. 171209
SCHÖPP-SCHILLING, Hanna Beate and FLINTERMAN, Cees, (eds.), Circle of
Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, New York: Feminist Press,
2007
SOKHI-BULLEY, Bal, “The Optional Protocol to CEDAW: First Steps”, 6 Human
Rights Law Review (2006), pp. 143-159
YAHYAOUI KRIVENKO, Ekaterina, Women, Islam and International Law Within the
Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women, Hague, Boston, London: Brill, Martinus
Nijhof, 2009
WEEK 5
PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY
Required readings
FREEMAN, Marsha A., CHINKIN, Christine and RUDOLF, Beate, “Article 1” in
Freeman, Marsha A., Chinkin, Christine and Rudolf, Beate (eds.) The
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UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women. A Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2012, pp. 51-70
Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 28: Equality of rights between
men and women, 2000, article 3. Read with General Comment No 18:
Non-discrimination, 1989.
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No
20: Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights, art. 2,
para. 2, 2009 and General Comment No 16: The equal right of men
and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights,
art.3, 2005.
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 25 -- thirtieth session, 2004
article 4 paragraph 1 - Temporary special measures
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation
No 25: Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination, 2000.
FREDMAN, Sandra “Redistribution and Recognition: Reconciling Inequalities”, 23
South African Journal on Human Rights (2007) pp. 214-234
Additional Readings
FACIO, Alda, MORGAN, Martha I. “Equity or Equality for Women? Understanding
CEDAW’s Equality Principles”, 60 Alabama Law Review (2008), pp.
1133-1170
BAYEFSKY, Anne F. “The Principle of Equality or Non-Discrimination in
International Law”, 11 Human Rights Law Journal (1990) pp. 1-34
COOK, Rebecca and CUSACK, Simone, Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal
Perspectives, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
CUSACK, Simone and COOK, Rebecca, “Combating Discrimination Based on Sex
and Gender” in Krause, C and Scheinin, M. (eds.) International
Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook, Turku: Institute for Human
Rights, Abo Akademi University, 2009, pp. 205 - 226
VANDENHOLE, Wouter, Non-Discrimination and Equality in the View of the UN
Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Antwerpen, Oxford: Intersentia, 2005
WEEK 6
WOMEN’S
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND RIGHTS IN THE TRADITIONAL ‘PUBLIC SPHERE’
WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE RIGHT TO WORK
Required Readings
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 23 -- sixteenth session, 1997
women in political and public life
International Labour Organization, ABC of women workers’ rights and gender
equality, 2nd edition, 2007, pp. 1-13 and two thematic articles of your
choice.
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CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 16 -- tenth session, 1991
unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 17 -- tenth session, 1991
measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic
activities of women and their recognition in the GNP
CEDAW Committee, General Recommendation No. 26 -- forty-second session,
2008, Women Migrant Workers
Make a web-search using the following words: “European Parliament baby”.
Read two relevant media reports of your choice. Make a search using
words “Parliament baby”. Try to find a similar case in relation to another
parliamentary organ. Think about the following questions:
 Why this case (“European Parliament baby”) attracted so much
attention?
 What internationally protected human rights of women are in play
in similar situations?
 What is the appropriate attitude in similar situations?
Additional readings
ANKER, Richard, Gender and jobs: Sex segregation of occupations in the world,
Geneva: ILO, 1998
BARTLETT, Katharine T. “Only Girls Wear Barrettes: Dress and Appearance
Standards, Community Norms, and Workplace Equality” 92 Michigan
Law Review (1994), pp. 2541-2582
BURNS, Nancy et al. (eds.) Private Roots of Public Actions: Gender, Equality and
Political Participation, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2001
CROSBY, Faye J., STOCKDALE, Margaret S. and ROPP, S. Ann, (eds.) Sex
Discrimination in the Workplace - Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Malden,
Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2007
FOX, Richard L. and LAWLESS, Jennifer L. “Entering the Arena? Gender and the
Decision to Run the Office” 48 American Journal of Political Science
(2004), pp. 264-280
HOOGHE, Marc and STOLLE, Dietlind, “Good Girls Go to the Polling Booth, Bad
Boys Go Everywhere” 26 Women and Politics (2004), pp. 1-23
RIGGIN, Jessica, “The Potential Impact of CEDAW Ratification on U.S.
Employment Discrimination Law: Lessons From Canada”, 42 Columbia
Human Rights Law Review (2011), pp. 541-611
SATTERTHWAITE, Margaret, “Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human
Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers”, 8 Yale Human
Rights & Development Law Journal (2005), pp. 1-66
SCULLY, Katherine, “Blocking Exit, Stopping Voice: How Exclusion From Labor
Law Protection Puts Domestic Workers at Risk in Saudi Arabia and
Around the World”, 41 Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2010), pp.
825-881
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TREBILCOCK, Anne “ILO Convention and Women Workers”, in K.D. Askin, D.M.
Koenig (eds.) Women and International Human Rights Law, Vol. II,
Ardsley: Transnational Publishers, 2000, pp. 301-318
UNDP, Human Development Resource Centre, Essays on Gender and
Governance, 2003
YUVAL-DAVIS, Nira, “Women, Citizenship and Difference”, 57 Feminist Review
(1997), pp. 4-27
CEDAW
Committee, Communication No 28/2010,
adopted on 13 April 2012
CEDAW/C/51/D/28/2010
WEEK 7
WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND HEALTH
Required readings
COOK, Rebecca, “Article 12” in Freeman, Marsha A., Chinkin, Christine and
Rudolf, Beate (eds.) The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women. A Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2012,
pp.
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 24 -- twentieth session, 1999
article 12 - women and health
CEDAW Committee, Communication No 22/2009, CEDAW/C/50/D/22/2009,
adopted 25 November 2011.
Find a recent media report concerning a case where you believe women’s right
to health is in play. If the right was respected, how the respect was
achieved? If the right was violated, what could have been done to
ensure the respect of the right?
Additional Readings
COOK, Rebecca J, “Human Rights Law and Safe Motherhood”, 2 European
Journal of Health Law (1998), pp. 357-373
COOK, Rebecca J, DICKENS, Bernard M, “The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood”, 2
Developing World Bioethics (2002), pp. 64-81
DICKENS, Bernard M, COOK, Rebecca J., “Adolescents and Consent to
Treatment”, 89 International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
(2005), pp. 179-184
ELY Yamin, Alicia, MAINE, Deborah, “Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue:
Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations”, 21 Human
Rights Quarterly (1999), pp. 563HALL, Margaux, AHMED, Aziza, SWANSON, Stephanie E. “Answering the
Millennium Call for the Right to Maternal Health: The Need to Eliminate
User Fees”, 12 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal (2009),
pp. 62-119
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WICKS, Elizabeth, “A, B, C v Ireland: Abortion Law under the European
Convention on Human Rights”, 11 Oxford Human Rights Law Review
(2011), pp. 556-566
WOLF, Shannon Renton, “Making Waves: Circumventing Domestic Law on the
High Seas” 14 Hastings Women’s Law Journal (2003), pp. 109-131
ZAMPAS, Christina, “Abortion as a Human Right: International and Regional
Standards”, 8 Oxford Human Rights Law Review (2008), pp. 249-294
CEDAW Committee, Communication 17/2008, CEDAW/C/49/D/17/2008, adopted
27 September 2011
WEEK 8
WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND FAMILY LIFE
Required readings
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 21 -- thirteenth session, 1994
equality in marriage and family relations.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, María Eugenia Morales de Sierra v.
Guatemala, Case 11.625, Report No. 4/00, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.111 Doc. 20
rev. at 929 (2000)
CEDAW Committee, Communication No 19/2008, CEDAW/C/51/D/19/2008,
adopted on 27 April 2012
YAHYAOUI KRIVENKO, Ekaterina, “Islamic View of Women’s Rights: An
International Lawyer’s Perspective” 2 Journal of East Asia and
International Law (2009), pp. 103-128
Additional readings
HODSON, Loveday, “Family Values: The Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships
in International Law”, 22 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2004)
pp. 33-57
Musawah for Equality in the Family, CEDAW and Muslim Family Laws: In Search
of Common Ground, (2011)
Marta Lucia Alvarez Giraldo v. Colombia, Admissibility Decision, Rep No. 71/99,
Case 11.810, 4 April 1999 (Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights) 5pp
Joslin v. New Zealand, Communication No. 902/1999, UN Doc
CCPR/C/75/D/902/1999 (2002)
WEEK 9
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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Required Readings
CEDAW Committee, General recommendation No. 19 -- eleventh session, 1992
violence against women
UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UN Doc.
A/RES/48/104, 20 December 1993
European Court of Human Rights, Opuz v. Turkey, 33401/02, judgement (merits
and just satisfaction), 9 June 2009, paragraphs 72-105, 128-202 in
particular
Inter American Court of Human Rights, Case of Gonzàlez et al. (‘Cotton Field’) v.
Mexico,
judgement,
16
November
2009,
available
at
http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_205_ing.pdf
LONDONO, Patricia, “Developing Human Rights Principles in Cases of Genderbased Violence: Opuz v Turkey in the European Court of Human
Rights”, 9 Oxford Human Rights Law Review (2009), pp. 657-667
Additional readings
BETTINGER-LOPEZ, Caroline, “Jessica Gonzales v United States: An Emerging
Model for Domestic Violence & Human Rights Advocacy in the United
States”, 21 Harvard Human Rights Journal (2008), pp.183-195
BYRNES, Andrew, BATH, Eleanor, “Violence against Women, the Obligation of
Due Diligence, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Recent
Developments”, 8 Oxford Human Rights Law Review (2008), pp. 517533
CUSACK, Simone, “Gender Stereotyping in Rape Cases: The CEDAW
Committee's Decision in Vertido v The Philippines”, 11 Oxford Human
Rights Law Review (2011), pp. 329-342
ROURE, Jodie G., “Domestic Violence in Brazil: Examining Obstacles and
Approaches to Promote Legislative Reform”, 41 Columbia Human
Rights Law Review (2009), pp. 67-98
WEEK 10 and 11
WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND CULTURAL VALUES
Required readings
SULLIVAN, Donna J. “Gender Equality and Religious Freedom: Toward a
Framework for Conflict Resolution”, 24 New York University Journal of
International Law and Politics (1991-1992) pp. 795-856
Maria Eugenia Morales de Sierra v. Guatemala, Report No 4/01, Case 11.625
(Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) (2001) (re-read)
Hassam v. Jacobs NO and Others (CCT83/08) [2009] ZACC 19 available at:
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2009/19.pdf
Citizenship and Immigration Canada, OP 2: Processing Members of the Family
Class, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2006, section 13.2
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European Court of Human Rights, Leyla Sahin v. Turkey, 44774/98, judgement
(merits), 10 November 2005
European Court of Human Rights, Dahlab v. Switzerland, 42393/98, decision, 15
February 2001
YAHYAOUI KRIVENKO, Ekaterina “Islamic Veil and Its Discontents: How Do They
Undermine Gender Equality” 7 Religion and Human Rights (2012), pp.
11-29.
Additional readings
AFKHAMI, Mahnaz, “Cultural Relativism and Women's Human Rights” in K.D.
Askin, D.M. Koenig (eds.) Women and International Human Rights Law,
Vol. II, Ardsley: Transnational Publishers, 2000, pp. 479-486
AMMONS, Linda L. “What’s God Got to Do With It? Church and State
Collaboration in the Subordination of Women and Domestic Violence”,
51 Rutgers Law Review (1999), pp. 1207-1288
BAILEY, Martha, KAUFMAN, Amy. Polygamy in the Monogamous World:
Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy, Santa Barbara,
CA: Praeger Publishers, 2010
BALZ, Killian, “The Secular Reconstruction of Islamic Law: Egyptian Supreme
Constitutional Court and the 'Battle over the Veil' in State-Run Schools”,
in B. Dupret et. al. (eds.) Legal Pluralism in the Arab World, The Hague:
Kluwer Law, 1999, pp. 229-243
COOK, Rebecca J., KELLY, Lisa M. Polygyny and Canada’s Obligations under
International Human Rights Law. Ottawa: Department of Justice of
Canada,
2006,
available
at:
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/deptmin/pub/poly/poly.pdf
COWAN, Sharon “The Headscarf Controversy: A Response to Jill Marshall”, 14
Res Publica (2008), pp. 192-201
HALPERIN-KADDARI, Ruth, “Women, Religion and Multiculturalism in Israel” 5
UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. (2000-2001), pp. 339HOLTMAAT, Rikki, Towards Different Law and Public Policy: The Significance of
Article 5a CEDAW for the Elimination of Structural Discrimination, Den
Haag:
Reed
Business
Information,
2004,
available
at
http://www.emancipatieweb.nl/uploads/947/Towards_Different_Law_and_Pub
lic_Policy.pdf
KELLY, Lisa M. “Bringing International Human Rights Law Home: An Evaluation of
Canada’s Family Law Treatment of Polygamy” 65 U.T.Fac.L.Rev.
(2007), pp. 1-25
MARSHALL, Jill, “Women's Right to Autonomy and Identity in European Human
Rights Law: Manifesting One's Religion”, 14 Res Publica (2008), pp.
177-192
MAYER, Ann Elizabeth, “Cultural Particularism as a Bar to Women’s Rights:
Reflections on the Middle Eastern Experience”, Women Living under
Muslim
Laws,
Dossier
16,
1996,
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