Women, poverty, equality : the role of CEDAW / Meghan Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Meghan, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

United Nations.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979 December 18).

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Equality before the law.

Poverty--International cooperation.

Poverty.

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.

Sex discrimination against women.

Women (International law).

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

The stark reality is that throughout the world, women disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How can human rights respond and alleviate gender-based poverty? This monograph closely examines the potential of equality and non-discrimination at international law to redress gender-based poverty. It offers a sophisticated assessment of how the international human rights treaties, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which contains no obligations on poverty, can be interpreted and used to address gender-based poverty. An interpretation of CEDAW that incorporates the harms of gender-based poverty can spark a global dialogue. The book makes an important contribution to that dialogue, arguing that the CEDAW should serve as an authoritative international standard setting exercise that can activate international accountability mechanisms and inform the domestic interpretation of human rights

Contents:

Mapping the problem

The drafting of CEDAW

Strategies for interpreting CEDAW

Interpreting gender-based poverty into CEDAW

The Committee and gender-based poverty

The working methods of the Committee

Evolutionary general recommendations

Envisioning gender-based poverty.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509909704

1509909702

9781509909773

150990977X

9781509909728

1509909729

OCLC:

1006521534