Lorena Sosa

Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women

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Produktbeschreibung

A new theoretical concept is becoming increasingly visible within the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW): intersectionality. This book clarifies the main aspects of this concept within different jurisdictions and will appeal to human rights scholars, lawyers and other practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781107172241
• ISBN-10: 1107172241
• Artikelnr.: 48137297

Autorenporträt

Lorena Sosa is a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. She is a human rights lawyer and specializes in gender, focusing on intersectional discrimination and violence. She has previously worked as a researcher and lecturer at Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands and the International Victimology Institute, Tilburg (INTERVICT). She has participated in a number of European Union projects in the field of violence against women and has given lectures on human rights, gender and law, and victimology. Her dissertation received the Max van der Stoel Award on Human Rights in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction
2. Intersectionality and violence against women
Part II. Intersectionality in Law: 3. The human rights framework on violence against women
4. Intersectionality in the United Nations
5. Intersectionality in the Council of Europe and inter-American system
Part III. Intersectionality in Practice: 6. Empirical case in Europe: Romani women and domestic violence
7. Empirical case in the Americas: women, diversity and domestic violence
Part IV. Conclusion.