Human rights under state-enforced religious family laws in Israel, Egypt, and India / Yüksel Sezgin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sezgin, Yüksel, 1974- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Israel.

Human rights.

Religion and law.

Israel.

Human rights--Egypt.

Egypt.

Human rights--India.

India.

Domestic relations--India.

Domestic relations.

Domestic relations--Israel.

Domestic relations--Egypt.

Religion and law--India.

Religion and law--Israel.

Religion and law--Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt & India

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Summary:

About one-third of the world's population currently lives under pluri-legal systems where governments hold individuals subject to the purview of ethno-religious rather than national norms in respect to family law. How does the state-enforcement of these religious family laws impact fundamental rights and liberties? What resistance strategies do people employ in order to overcome the disabilities and limitations these religious laws impose upon their rights? Based on archival research, court observations and interviews with individuals from three countries, Yüksel Sezgin shows that governments have often intervened in order to impress a particular image of subjectivity upon a society, while people have constantly challenged the interpretive monopoly of courts and state-sanctioned religious institutions, re-negotiated their rights and duties under the law, and changed the system from withinches He also identifies key lessons and best practices for the integration of universal human rights principles into religious legal systems.

Contents:

Introduction

Personal status, nation-building, and the postcolonial state

The impact of state-enforced personal status laws on human rights

A fragmented confessional system : state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Israel

A unified confessional system : state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Egypt

A unified semi-confessional system : state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in India

Conclusion

Appendix. Country-specific declarations and reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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ISBN:

9781139649612

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