Conceptualizing femicide as a human rights violation : : state responsibility under international law / / Angela Hefti.

"This thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related risks of violence against women and girls. In doing so, it reassesses the concept of femicide, analysing it in view of the crime of genocide, crimes...

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Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction to the concept of femicide
  • PART I FEMICIDE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
  • 2. Femicide and (the laws of) war
  • 3. Femicide and crimes against humanity
  • 4. Femicide: Genocide by another name?
  • CONCLUSION TO PART I
  • PART II FEMICIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
  • 5. Femicide, the UN system and CEDAW
  • 6. Femicide and the European human rights system
  • 7. Femicide and the inter-American human rights system
  • 8. Femicide and the Afican human rights system
  • CONCLUSION TO PART II
  • PART III A HUMAN RIGHTS CONCEPT OF FEMICIDE AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY
  • 9. Conceptualizing femicide as a human rights violation
  • 10. No more impunity: Femicide and state responsibility
  • CONCLUSION TO PART III
  • Index.