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Domestic Violence Law: International Law
A guide to domestic violence law resources, including sources of federal, state, and international law, practice materials and materials on specific legal issues, as well as news, scholarship, agencies, and organizations.
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News, Blogs & Journals
Evaluating Internet Resources
Laws and Regulations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW (1979) and Optional Protocol to the Convention (1999)
Framework for Model Legislation on Domestic Violence
Handbook for Legislation on Violence against Women
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2010
The International Legal Framework
The Protection of Women Against Violence
Recommendation No R (2002) 5 adopted by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 30 April 2002
UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
G.A. res. 48/104, 48 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 217, U.N. Doc. A/48/49 (1993)
UN Human Rights Commission Resolution 2005/41
Elimination of violence against women, 19 April 2005
Violence Against Women in Europe
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, April 2000
Cases
González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, November 16, 2009
Jessica Gonzales v. United States
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, July 24, 2007
A. T. v. Hungary
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Communication No.: 2/2003
Şahide Goekce (deceased) v. Austria
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, Communication No. 5/2005
Fatma Yildirim (deceased) v. Austria
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, Communication No. 6/2005
N.S.F. v. United Kingdom
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, Communication No. 10/2005
Opuz v. Turkey
European Court of Human Rights, 9 June 2009
Reports and Articles
Global and Regional Trends in Women's Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Harassment
World Bank. February 2018.
15 Years of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences (1994-2009) - A Critical Review
Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill-Treatment of Women
Amnesty International, 2001
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence at the Household and Community Levels: An Operational Framework for Developing Countries
Nata Duvvury, Caren Grown, and Jennifer Redner, 2004
Domestic Violence, Health, and International Law
Bonita Meyersfeld, 22 Emory International Law Review 61 (2008)
Jessica Gonzales v. United States: An Emerging Model for Domestic Violence & Human Rights Advocacy in the United States
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, 21 Harvard Human Rights Journal (2008)
Justice, Change, and Human Rights: International Research and Responses to Domestic Violence
Barbara Burton, Nata Duvvury, and Nisha Varia, 2000
Gender, Equity and Human Rights
World Health Organization, includes commentary, fact sheets, infographic, newsletter, and report Roadmap for Action 2014-2019.
Overcoming Domestic Violence: A Global Challenge
Una Hombrecher, International Project “Overcoming
Domestic Violence,” 2007
Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence
World Health Organization and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2010
Psychology and Domestic Violence Around the World
Lenore E. Walker, 54 American Psychologist 1 (January 1999)
Reconceptualizing Domestic Violence in International Law
Bonita C. Meyersfeld, 67 Albany Law Review 371 (2003)
Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honour-Related Violence: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Western Europe and North America
Anna C. Korteweg, Gökçe Yurdakul, UN Research Institute for Social Development, 2010
State Obligations Regarding Domestic Violence: The European Court of Human Rights, Due Diligence, and International Legal Minimums of Protection
Lee Hasselbacher, 8 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 190 (2010)
Violence Prevention
World Health Organization.
Women, Violence, and Health
Amnesty International, 2005
Legal Reform on Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Cheryl A. Thomas, Women’s Human Rights Program,
The Advocates for Human Rights, 2008
Online Resources
Legal Research Guide on International Women's Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
UN Women--Violence Against Women
Women's Human Rights Resources Database
Univ. of Toronto Law Library
Agencies and Organizations
Council of Europe Task Force to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence
Futures Without Violence (formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund)
Hague Domestic Violence Project
International Women's Rights Action Watch
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE)
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