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From Report Summary: "The
failure of international human rights law to adequately reflect and respond to
the experiences and needs of women has stimulated much debate on the mainstream
application of human rights standards. This has resulted in the transformation
of the conventional understanding of human rights and the doctrine of State
responsibility....The potential of the due diligence standard is explored at
different levels of intervention: individual women, the community, the State and
the transnational level....The report concludes that if we continue to dare to
push the boundaries of due diligence in demanding the full compliance of States
with international law, including to addresss the root causes of violence
against women, and to hold non-State actors accountable for their acts of
violence, then we will move towards a conception of human rights that meets our
aspirations for a just world free of violence."
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Amnesty International
Despite
the obligation of the states to act with due diligence to prevent violence
against women - violence against women and girls in many societies is met with
governmental silence or apathy or lack of interest.
The violence against women by agents of the state goes largely unreported
and unscrutinized.
Women continue to face violence at the hands of state agents.
All
governments have the responsibility under international human rights law to:
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