Women's Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination / Les Droits Des Femmes Et L'Elimination de La Discrimination

Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In this volume 17 scholars approach women's human rights globally, regionally and nationally, combining the perspectives of public a [...]
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Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In this volume 17 scholars approach women's human rights globally, regionally and nationally, combining the perspectives of public and private international law in a hitherto unique manner. Comprehensive legal, culture-based and theoretical overviews are combined with analyses of topical issues, such as unbalanced sex-ratios, intercountry adoption, women as refugees or as "surrogate mothers," violence against women and cross-border enforcement of protection orders. Si les droits de l'Homme font l'objet d'un grand nombre d'instruments conventionnels universels et regionaux, leur effectivite et leur efficacite ne sont pas encore acquises comme l'illustre ce volume consacre a la question de la discrimination. A travers des chapitres qui melent des approches de droit prive et de droit public, des considerations juridiques, politiques, religieuses, economiques et sociales et qui offrent une analyse globale de certaines thematiques liees a la discrimination fondee sur le genre, l'ambition de cet ouvrage est de souligner les visages divers qu'elle revet ainsi que les solutions juridiques plus ou moins efficaces qui ont ete mises en place par les Etats, les organisations internationales et la societe civile pour y remedier.