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Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice / created by Sally Engle Merry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University of Chicago Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 269 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226520742
  • 0226520749
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1237 MER
Contents:
Introduction: Culture and transnationalism -- Creating human rights -- Gender violence and the CEDAW process -- Disjunctures between global law and local justice -- Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular -- Localizing human rights and rights consciousness -- Conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Culture and transnationalism -- Creating human rights -- Gender violence and the CEDAW process -- Disjunctures between global law and local justice -- Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular -- Localizing human rights and rights consciousness -- Conclusions.

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