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Violence Against Women as a Violation of Human Rights

NCJ Number
126233
Journal
Social Justice Volume: 17 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1990) Pages: 54-70
Author(s)
J R Chapman
Date Published
1990
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Three approaches to eradicate violence against women are examined within the context of the conceptual framework of the international human rights agenda. These three factors are legal reform, interdisciplinary approaches, and activist projects at the national and local levels.
Abstract
Unequal distribution of power between men and women; cultural, economic, and systemic factors; and tolerance by legal systems and society of violence against women are cited as contributing factors to the perpetration of this abuse of the human rights of women. Violence against women must be considered as a separate human rights abuse problem because of its complexity and involvement of primary human relationships. By employing these three approaches which originate at the local levels, human rights abuses of women can be dealt with in an international forum. A history of the development of women's rights as part of the human rights agenda through the United Nations is appended. 36 references

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