Due Diligence and Its Application to Protect Women from ViolenceCarin Benninger-Budel 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 womena (TM)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. |
Contents
introduction Carin BenningerBudel | 1 |
Standards Problems and Outlook | 25 |
What Does it Entail for Womens Rights? Yakin Ertürk | 27 |
The History and Development of the Due Diligence standard in international Law and its Role in the Protection of Women against Violence Joanna ... | 47 |
The Due Diligence standard with Respect to the Obligation to banish Gender stereotypes on the Grounds of Article 5 a of the CEDAW Convention Ri... | 63 |
Emerging Human Rights Obligations for nonstate Actors Ineke Boerefijn and Eva Naezer | 91 |
Due Diligence and the Power of Economic Players Helen OConnell | 109 |
Due Diligence and the Fight against Genderbased Violence in the interAmerican system Elizabeth AH AbiMershed | 127 |
Trafficking in Women | 191 |
A brief introduction to issues of Responsibility and Accountability Anne Gallagher | 193 |
Problems with the implementation of the Due Diligence standard from the Perspective of Countries of Origin in the OsCE Region Shivaun Scanlan | 203 |
Human Trafficking in Germany Nivedita Prasad and Babette Rohner | 213 |
Violence against Women Legitimised with Arguments of Culture | 223 |
Violence against Women CulturalReligious Traditions and the international standard of Due Diligence Judith Wyttenbach | 225 |
Violence against Women Legitimised by Arguments of Culture Thoughts from a Pakistani Perspective Farida Shaheed | 241 |
The Case for Due Diligence Susana T Fried | 249 |
Applying the Due Diligence Principle in Asia Pacific Lisa Pusey | 139 |
Section II Due Dilligence in Context | 157 |
Domestic Violence | 159 |
South Africas Response to Domestic Violence Dee Smythe | 161 |
Amnesty internationals Work on Domestic Violence Lisa Gormley | 173 |
More Rights but the Obstacles Remain Marķa Naredo Molero | 185 |
Violence in Armed Conflict | 263 |
Violence against Women in Armed Conflict Theodor Winkler | 265 |
Table of Cases | 273 |
The Contributors | 277 |
The supporting Organisations | 283 |
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