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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and HĂŠlène Tigroudja, "Womenâs Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016)
Description: Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In Womenâs Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), 17 scholars approach womenâs human rights globally, regionally and nationally, combining the perspectives of public and private international law in a hitherto unique manner. Comprehensive legal, culture-based and theoretical overviews are combined with analyses of topical issues, such as unbalanced sex-ratios, intercountry adoption, women as refugees or as âsurrogate mothersâ, violence against women and cross-border enforcement of protection orders. Learn more about...