Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook » (~)

Susan Deller Ross is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Founder and Director of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown. RossRights.com is an an online documentary supplement to Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook.

Women's Human Rights studies the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs and demonstrates how international human rights treaties can be used to develop new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination, subordination, and violence.

Ch. 1 Women's Status and CEDAW 1

Ch. 2 Equality Doctrines and Gender Discrimination: The Evolving Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court 54

Ch. 3 The Interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR; and the Human Rights Committee's Evolving Equal Protection Doctrine 91

Ch. 4 Conflicting Human Rights Under International Law: Freedom of Religion Versus Women's Equality Rights 115

Ch. 5 Enforcing Women's International Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights 153

Ch. 6 Enforcing Women's International Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 198

Ch. 7 Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared 244

Ch. 8 The Special Treatment Versus Equal Treatment Debate 285

Ch. 9 CEDAW in Practice 326

Ch. 10 Enforcing Women's International Rights at Home: International Law in Domestic Courts 369

Ch. 11 Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence 409

Ch. 12 Strategies for Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Footbinding: Western Imperialism or Women's Human Rights? 461

Ch. 13 Gender and Polygyny - Religion, Culture, and Equality in Marriage 512

Ch. 14 Women's Reproductive Rights 571

Table of Cases 639

Glossary 641

Acronyms and Short Forms 643

Credits and Permissions 645

Index 649