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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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Law Library Open Shelf HQ1237 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153164 Available BK140361
Book Book Law Library Open Shelf HQ1237 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153165 Available BK140371
Book Book Law Library Open Shelf HQ1237 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153166 Available BK140356

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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