Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law

Dr Alice Edwards is Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in various locations and for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Feminist theories on international law and human rights; 3. The international human rights treaty system: practice and procedure; 4. Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex; 5. Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 6. The right to life; 7. Conundrums, paradoxes, and continuing inequality: revisiting feminist narratives; 8. Strategising next steps: treaty body reform and humanising women.

'This book is a significant and original contribution to human rights literature that is firmly grounded in feminist theory applied to the law, institutions and practice of the United Nations human rights system. Dr Edwards' meticulous and persuasive analysis of the work of selected human rights bodies is an impressive work of scholarship.' Professor Andrew Byrnes, University of New South Wales