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Chapter 5. Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture

From the book Human Rights of Women

  • Rhonda Copelon
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201666.116
From the book
Human Rights of Women
Human Rights of Women

Chapters in this book (33)

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I .Introduction
Chapter 1. Women's International Human Rights Law; The Way Forward
Part II. Challenges
Chapter 2. To Bellow like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity, and the Discourse of Rights
Chapter 3. What are "Women's International Human Rights"?
Chapter 4. State Responsibility Goes Private: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in international Human Rights Law
Chapter 5. Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture
Chapter 6. Why Rethinking the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law
Part III. International and Regional Approaches
Chapter 7. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws
Chapter 8. Toward More Effective Enforcement of Women's Human Rights Through the Use of International Human Rights Law and Procedures
Chapter 9. State Accountability Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Chapter 10. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Women in the Inter-American System
Chapter 11. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of Women's Rights in the African Human Rights System
Chapter 12. African Women's Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights–Toward a Relevant Theory and Practice
Chapter 13 Domestic Violence as an International Human Rights Issue
Chapter 14. The Developing Approaches of the International Commission of Jurists to Women's Human Rights
Part IV. National Approaches
Chapter 15. General Approaches to the Domestic Application of Women's International Human Rights Law
Chapter 16. Obstacles to Women's Rights in India
Chapter 17. Challenges to the Application of International Women's Human Rights in the Sudan
Chapter 18. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women's International Human Rights; The Example of Ghana
Chapter 19. Canadian Approaches to Equality Rights and Gender Equity in the Courts
Part V. Guaranteeing Human Rights of Particular Significance to Women
Chapter 20. Equality in the Home: Women's Rights and Personal Laws in South Asia
Chapter 21. Using the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights to Secure Women's Access to Land in Africa
Chapter 22. Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: The Colombian Case
Chapter 23. The Use of International Human Rights Norms to Combat Violence Against Women
Appendix A: Ratifications of Selected Human Rights Instruments
Appendix B: Model Communication Form
Appendix C: Organizational Resources
Contributors
Table of Cases
Index
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