A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women: Global and Regional Standards Adopted by Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations and Professional AssociationsGuðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Katarina Tomaševski Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995 M09 7 - 434 pages "A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women" is the first volume in a new series: "The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human" "Rights Guides," As the term guide' implies, the series will facilitate orientation in international human rights standards by presenting the content of substantive standards in a systematic way. The Guides map out the entire range of human rights and fundamental freedoms as they relate to specific categories of beneficiaries. Future volumes will be devoted to children, minorities, indigenous peoples, detainees, migrants, and so on. Volumes are also planned to deal with health, information, and humanitarian relief, in which the category of beneficiary is open ended. In all such areas, those who are professionally involved in human rights activities need guidance to substantive standards, which are neither widely known nor readily accessible. This first volume establishes the structure to be followed by future Guides. Part 1 groups the relevant provisions from different instruments according to specific rights and freedoms. Part 2 supplies a chronological list of all the instruments that have been excerpted in Part 1, enabling the user to locate the entire document if wished. Part 3 contains an extensive index of all relevant provisions. |
Contents
RIGHT TO FOUND A FAMILY | 11 |
MAIN POLICY DOCUMENTS | 49 |
ELIMINATION OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION | 71 |
8888 | 77 |
Accelerating achievement of real equality Council | 85 |
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION | 93 |
LABOUR RIGHTS | 143 |
PROTECTION OF MOTHERHOOD | 237 |
TRADITIONAL PRACTICES | 305 |
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | 313 |
WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES | 339 |
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE | 347 |
HUMANITARIAN LAW | 351 |
REFUGEE WOMEN | 359 |
1988 | 387 |
396 | |
GIRL CHILD | 271 |
RIGHT TO EDUCATION | 283 |
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND MASS MEDIA | 291 |
2224 | 299 |
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