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The
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
A Commentary
Marsha A. Freeman, Christine Chinkin Beate Rudolf
ISBN13:
9780199565061ISBN10: 0199565066 Hardback,
808 pages
Jan 2012
Price:
$255.00 (06)
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Description
This volume is the first
comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. The Convention is a key
international human rights instrument and the only one exclusively addressed to
women. It has been described as the United Nations' 'landmark treaty in the
struggle for women's rights'.
The Commentary describes the application of the Convention through the work of
its monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women. It comprises detailed analyses of the Preamble and each article of the
Convention and of the Optional Protocol. It also includes a separate chapter on
the cross-cutting substantive issue of violence against women. The sources relied
on are the treaty language and the general recommendations, concluding
observations and case law under the Optional Protocol, through which the
Committee has interpreted and applied the Convention. Each chapter is
self-contained but the Commentary is conceived of as an integral whole. The
book also includes an Introduction which provides an overview of the Convention
and its embedding in the international law of human rights.
First commentary on one of the most important anti-discrimination
and women's rights instruments
Systematic article-by-article structure, setting out each
provision's negotiating history, interpretation, and relevant case law
Full overview of the work of the CEDAW Committee, including all of
its decisions and recommendations
Includes detailed history of the adoption of the Optional Protocol
808 pages; 9.7 x 6.7;
ISBN13:
978-0-19-956506-1ISBN10: 0-19-956506-6
Marsha A. Freeman is Director of the International Women's Rights
Action Watch and a Senior Fellow at the
Christine Chinkin has law degrees from the universities of
Since 1 January 2010, Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf is the Director of the German
Institute for Human Rights. Prior to that, she was a junior professor for
public law and equality law at the faculty of law of Freie Universitat