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

By: Series: Chicago series in law and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: ix, 269 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195699203
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.0878 MER
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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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BOOKs National Law School General Stacks 342.0878 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 23086

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) 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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