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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: 9780199682249
Published In: July 2013
Format: Paperback , 800 pages
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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: Students and scholars of international human rights law and women's rights; practitioners and NGO and government legal advisers and policy-makers working in these areas

1: Christine Chinkin and Marsha A. Freeman: Introduction
2: Christine Chinkin and Beate Rudolf: Preamble
3: Andrew Byrnes: Article 1
4: Andrew Byrnes: Article 2
5: Christine Chinkin: Article 3
6: Frances Raday: Article 4
7: Rikki Holtmaat: Article 5
8: Janie Chuang: Article 6
9: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 7
10: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 8
11: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 9
12: Fareda Banda: Article 10
13: Frances Raday: Article 11
14: Rebecca J. Cook and Veronica Undurraga: Article 12
15: Beate Rudolf: Article 13
16: Fareda Banda: Article 14
17: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 15
18: Marsha A. Freeman: Article 16
19: Christine Chinkin: Violence Against Women
20: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 17
21: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 18
22: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 19
23: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 20
24: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 21
25: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 22
26: Andrew Byrnes: Article 23
27: Andrew Byrnes: Article 24
28: Susann Kroworsch: Article 25
29: Susann Kroworsch: Article 26
30: Susann Kroworsch: Article 27
31: Jane Connors: Article 28
32: Susann Kroworsch: Article 29
33: Susann Kroworsch: Article 30
34: Jane Connors: 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; 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 ofWomen'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, Professor Beate Rudolf has been 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
Ineke Boerefijn - Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
Andrew Byrnes - University of New South Wales
Janie Chuang - American University, Washington College of Law
Jane Connors - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Rebecca J. Cook - University of Toronto Law Faculty
Savitri W.E. Goonesekere - University of Colombo Sri Lanka
Rikki Holtmaat - Leiden University
Susann Kroworsch - Freie Universität Berlin
Frances Raday - Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law
Verónica Undurraga - University of Chile Law School
Sarah Wittkopp - Freie Universität Berlin

"Kudos to all the contributors to this fine resource, as well as to the intrepid editors who brought this behemoth task to fruition. The iCommentaryr will serve human rights scholars and students, gender activists, policy makers, and the wider international law community for decades to come." - Lisa R. Pruitt, IntLawGrrls Blog