Under international human rights law, states are required to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, punish and provide redress for acts of violence against women. Accordingly, the due diligence standard presents a way to measure whether a state has fulfilled its obligations to prevent and respond to violence against women. Despite its growing popularity as a tool for promoting greater state accountability for violence against women by non-state actors, the content and scope of due diligence obligations remain vague. Against the backdrop of contemporary issues that pose threats to women's rights, the contributors to this volume examine how the due diligence standard and other strategies can be applied as useful mechanisms to combat violence against women in various cultures worldwide.
Author(s): Benninger-Budel, C. (ed.)
Series: Nijhoff Law Specials 73
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 313
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface (Carin Benninger-Budel, Christina Hausammann, Stella Jegher, Regula Ludi, Brigitte Schnegg)......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
introduction (Carin Benninger-Budel)......Page 14
Section I Due Dilligence: Standards, Problems and Outlook......Page 38
The Due Diligence standard: What Does it Entail for Women's Rights? (Yakin Ertürk)......Page 40
The History and Development of the Due Diligence standard in international Law and its Role in the Protection of Women against Violence (Joanna Bourke-Martignoni)......Page 60
Preventing Violence against Women: The Due Diligence standard with Respect to the Obligation to banish Gender stereotypes on the Grounds of Article 5 (a) of the CEDAW Convention (Rikki Holtmaat)......Page 76
Emerging Human Rights Obligations for non-state Actors (Ineke Boerefijn and Eva Naezer)......Page 104
Due Diligence and the Power of Economic Players (Helen O'Connell)......Page 122
Due Diligence and the Fight against Gender-based Violence in the inter-American system (Elizabeth A.H. Abi-Mershed)......Page 140
Applying the Due Diligence Principle in Asia Pacific (Lisa Pusey)......Page 152
Section II Due Dilligence in Context......Page 170
Domestic Violence......Page 172
South Africa's Response to Domestic Violence (Dee Smythe)......Page 174
Violence against Women by non-state Actors, a Responsibility for the state under Human Rights Law: Amnesty international's Work on Domestic Violence (Lisa Gormley)......Page 186
Spain: More Rights, but the Obstacles Remain (María Naredo Molero)......Page 198
Trafficking in Women......Page 204
Human Trafficking: A brief introduction to issues of Responsibility and Accountability (Anne Gallagher)......Page 206
Problems with the implementation of the Due Diligence standard from the Perspective of Countries of Origin in the OsCE Region (Shivaun Scanlan)......Page 216
Human Trafficking in Germany (Nivedita Prasad and Babette Rohner)......Page 226
Violence against Women Legitimised with Arguments of 'Culture'......Page 236
Violence against Women, Cultural/Religious Traditions and the international standard of Due Diligence (Judith Wyttenbach)......Page 238
Violence against Women Legitimised by Arguments of 'Culture' – Thoughts from a Pakistani Perspective (Farida Shaheed)......Page 254
Controlling Women's sexuality, sustaining Dominant Culture(s), Legitimising Gender-based Violence: The Case for Due Diligence (Susana T. Fried)......Page 262
Violence in Armed Conflict......Page 276
Violence against Women in Armed Conflict (Theodor Winkler)......Page 278
Table of Cases......Page 286
The Contributors......Page 290
The supporting Organisations......Page 296
Index
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