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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822261903321

Autore

Campbell Meghan <1985->

Titolo

Women, poverty, equality : the role of CEDAW / / Meghan Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [UK] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-5099-0970-2

1-5099-0977-X

1-5099-0972-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

342.08/78

Soggetti

Equality before the law

Poverty - International cooperation

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation

Women (International law)

Women's rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mapping the problem -- The drafting of CEDAW -- Strategies for interpreting CEDAW -- Interpreting gender-based poverty into CEDAW -- The Committee and gender-based poverty -- The working methods of the Committee -- Evolutionary general recommendations -- Envisioning gender-based poverty.

Sommario/riassunto

The stark reality is that throughout the world, women disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How can human rights respond and alleviate gender-based poverty? This monograph closely examines the potential of equality and non-discrimination at international law to redress gender-based poverty. It offers a sophisticated assessment of how the international human rights treaties, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which contains no obligations on poverty, can be interpreted and used to address gender-based poverty. An interpretation of CEDAW that incorporates the harms of gender-based poverty can spark a global



dialogue. The book makes an important contribution to that dialogue, arguing that the CEDAW should serve as an authoritative international standard setting exercise that can activate international accountability mechanisms and inform the domestic interpretation of human rights