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Human rights & gender violence

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Human rights & gender violence: Translating international law into local justice

By Sally Marry

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About the book

Despite the best efforts of the United Nations and advances in human rights law, violence against women across the globe is still perpetuated in the gap between legal principle and local practices. Human Rights and Gender Violence investigates the tensions between global law and local justice from an insider's perspective. A. an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry shows how human rights law ho...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
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Sociology and anthropology

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ISBN

9780226520742

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Human rights & gender violence

Format

Hardcover

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