Women�s access to justice for gender-based violence

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ISBN	9789290372325 (pbk.)
Call Number	HQ1237 W872 2016
Title	Womens access to justice for gender-based violence/ International Commission of Jurists
Alternate Title	Womens access to justice for gender-based violence, Practitioners Guides, no. 12
Imprint	Geneva : International Commission of Jurists, 2016.
Physical	xi, 356 p. ; 22 cm.
Series Name	Practitioners Guides, no. 12
Contents Note	Introduction --Legal advocacy using applicable international human rights law Guiding principles --Forms of gender-based violence recognized as engaging international human rights law --Respect, protect, fulfil: State responsibility for its own actions, and the actions of non-state actors -- The Convention on the Eliminations of all forms of Discrimination against Women as a dynamic legal framework --Traps, dead-ends and obstacles to justice: solutions proposed by human rights law frameworks --Safety, well-being, dignity, empowerment: building firm foundations for the criminal justice process --Improving criminal justice systems and fighting impunity --Practical considerations.
Summary	However, in 2016, violence against women remains a public health problem of epidemic proportions, thought to affect between 35-70 per cent of all women and girls at some point during their lives. The ICJs 12th Practitioners Guide, Womens Access to Justice for Gender-Based Violence, is designed to support legal practitioners and human rights defenders involved, or interested, in pursuing cases of gender-based violence. Lasting change to address the root causes of violence against women can only take place as part of a coordinated effort on behalf of multiple stakeholders, however the ICJ believes that legal practitioners and human rights defenders are indispensible to addressing the problem and realizing womens access to justice. Access to justice for gender-based violence means that States must implement a range of measures that recognize violence against women as a crime and ensure appropriate procedures are in place that enable investigations, prosecutions and access to effective remedies and reparation.
Subject	Gender equality
Subject	Equity (International law)
Subject	Women--Violence against
Corporate Author	International Commission of Jurists
Link	Electronic resource
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