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The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women A Commentary

Author: Marsha A. Freeman; Christine Chinkin; Beate Rudolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199565061
Published In: January 2012
Format: Hardback
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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

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.

Readership: Scholars and students of international human rights law and women's rights; practitioners and NGO and government legal advisers and policy-makers working in these areas

Contents:: 1. Introduction;
2. Preamble;
3. Article 1;
4. Article 2;
5. Article 3;
6. Article 4;
7. Article 5;
8. Article 6;
9. Article 7;
10. Article 8;
11. Article 9;
12. Article 10;
13. Article 11;
14. Article 12;
15. Article 13;
16. Article 14;
17. Article 15;
18. Article 16;
19. Article 17;
20. Article 18;
21. Article 19;
22. Article 20;
23. Article 21;
24. Article 22;
25. Article 23;
26. Article 24;
27. Article 25;
28. Article 26;
29. Article 27;
30. Article 28;
31. Article 29;
32. Article 30;
33. Violence Against Women;
34. Optional Protocol

Edited by Marsha A. Freeman, Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota Human Rights Center; Director, International Women's Rights Action Watch, Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science;, and Beate Rudolf, Director of the German Institute for Human Rights

Marsha A. Freeman is Director of the International Women's Rights Action Watch and a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. IWRAW is an international women's human rights resource centre and pioneered the shadow reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Dr. Freeman is the editor of Assessing the Status of Women, a guide to using the CEDAW Convention, and author of Women's Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, a manual for working with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Christine Chinkin has law degrees from the universities of London and Sydney and Yale Law School. She has taught international law in Singapore, Australia and the United States as well as in the United Kingdom. She is a member of Matrix Chambers and the author of many articles on international human rights law, especially relating to women's human rights. She has been a consultant to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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 Universität Berlin and director of the research project "Public International Law Standards for Governance in Weak and Failing States" within the Research Center "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood". Her research focuses on human rights and legal principles on state structures under public international law, European law and German constitutional law as well as from a comparative law perspective.

Contributors:

Fareda Banda - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Ineke Boerefijn - Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Andrew Byrnes - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Janie Chuang - American University, Washington College of Law, USA

Jane Connors - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland

Rebecca J. Cook - University of Toronto Law Faculty, Canada

Savitri W.E. Goonesekere - University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Rikki Holtmaat - Leiden University, The Netherlands

Susann Kroworsch - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Frances Raday - Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law, LeZion, Israel

Verónica Undurraga - University of Chile Law School