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Part Two The Doctrine and Practice of the Inter-American System, 10 Women’s Rights, Gender, and Sexuality

, 2019
This chapter examines the inter-American system’s response to gender-based human rights violations, particularly the Commission and Court’s jurisprudence on violence and discrimination against women, and women’s access to social, economic, procedural ...
Duhaime, Bernard, Naddeo, Cecilia, Guzmán, Diana, Sandoval, Clara, Brewer, Stephanie Erin, Vargas, Claret, Bettinger-Lopez, Caroline, Cavallaro, James L.   +7 more
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Human rights violation of trans women in Umlazi Township, South Africa: an interpretive phenomenological analysis study

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
This paper reports on human rights violation of trans women in Umlazi township in South Africa. Violation of trans women’s human rights happens in several countries regardless of their constitutional stance regarding LGBTQI policies.
Ruth Ntombifuthi Luthuli, Idah Moyo, Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi   +2 more
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“Human rights” in the protection of rural women’s land rights and interests in China, 2000–2022: judicial perspective

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In mainland China, rural women still suffer from unequal treatment in the distribution of land rights and interests. On the conceptual level, the distribution of land rights in China’s rural areas is often characterized by gender-based discrimination. On
Yonghe Zhang, Xiaoyi Huang
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Locked Away While Innocent: Women, Human Rights, and Pre-Trial Detention

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Pre-trial detention is intended to be a measure of last resort, yet it is excessively applied across jurisdictions worldwide. This paper examines its use, with particular emphasis on its application to women and its incompatibility with international ...
Samantha Jeffries, Barbara Owen
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Perlindungan Hukum dan Ham Terhadap Pekerja Perempuan di Malam Hari (Karaoke) di Kota Ambon

SASI, 2012
Morally required all states to respect, uphold and protect the rights of women. One form of women's rights is a guarantee to protect in accordance with religious values and humanitarian as well as Pancasila and destination country listed in the 1945 ...
Barzah Latupono
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Rights, Shares, and Claims: Realizing Women's Rights in South Asia

, 2012
"SAWF is a regional women’s Fund, committed to supporting women-led interventions to enhance and strengthen access to women’s human rights and countering violations thereof.
Menon, Deepthy, Alam, Rita, Javeed, Sarah, Rajan, Anuradha, Chaujar, Paro   +4 more
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Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Women's Rights

This paper is part of the Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States Project from the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.In 1972, Shirley Chisholm made history as the first African American woman to seek a nomination from a major ...
Shattuck, John, Risse, Mathias
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Human rights and jus Cogens: Questioning the use of normative hierarchy theory in human rights law

, 2009
A Jus cogens is a hierarchically superior norm 'from which no derogation is permitted'. This peremptory norm suggests that there is a hierarchy among rules relating to international law.
Mayua, Jim Nzonguma
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Women's Human Rights in Africa: Beyond the Debate over the Universality or Relativity of Human Rights

African Studies Quarterly, 1998
In the fifty years following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, anthropology as a discipline has embraced a predominantly ethical relativist stance toward the idea of human rights as ...
Diana J. Fox
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Human Rights and Violence Against Women: Campo Algodonero Case

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2018
The present article seeks to analyze human rights from a gender perspective. To do so, it goes back to the past to explain the development of the society of rights and women’s rights.
Dandara de Paula
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