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Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society) by Sally Engle Merry is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. <i>Human Rights and Gender Violence</i> is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice.<br> <br> As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist org
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- Author
- Sally Engle Merry
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226520735
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (59 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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