Understanding Women's Human Rights

Below are links to key readings and additional documents for the Understanding Women's Human Rights course that ran in Summer term 2008. They are password protected and only available to alumni of the course, for their personal educational use. They may not be shared, copied or distributed


Key Readings
'The International Human Rights Law Framework for Guaranteeing Women's Rights' Professor Christine Chinkin
'Women and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' Professor Christine Chinkin
'Violence Against Women' Professor Aileen McColgan
'The Rights of the Girl Child' Deirdre Fottrell
'Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights' Professor Paul Hunt
'Women in the Criminal Justice System' Phillippa Kaufmann

Additional documents (also provided in hard copy)
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (link to external site)
Protocol 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (link to external site)
CCPR General Comment 28 (equality of rights between men and women)
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (link to external site)
CESCR General Comments: 14 (the right to the highest attainable standard of health); 16 (the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (link to external site)
Optional Protocol to CEDAW
CEDAW General Recommendations: 19 (Violence against Women); 24 (Women and Health)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (link to external site)
African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child
Protocol to the African charter on Human and Peoples’ rights on the rights of women in Africa
Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, (supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organised crime) (link to external site)
The United Nations Treaty System: an introduction to the core human rights treaties and the treaty bodies (UN Fact Sheet)
CERD General Recommendation 25 (Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination)
General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Intersections between culture and violence against women (Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences)
Council of Europe Convention on Action in Trafficking in Human Beings (link to external site)

Additional documents (Not provided in hard copy)
Legal decisions/judgments: Llantoy v. Peru; Tysiąc v. Poland; MC v. Bulgaria; AT v. Hungary
ECHR Advisory Opinion on no women on lists of candidates for election as judges to ECtHR (link to external site)
UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression
Because I am a Girl (link to Plan-UK campaign page and report)
Rights of Women policy newsletter Issue 8, 2008

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