TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medie,Peace A.
TI  - Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa 
T2  - Oxford studies in gender and international relations
SN  - 9780190922993 (ebook) :
AV  - HV6250.4.W65 M4175 2020
U1  - 362.8817082096 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Africa
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - When and why do states implement international women's rights norms? This text examines states' responses to violence against women (VAW) in Africa and their implementation of the international women's justice norm. Despite the presence of laws on various forms of VAW in most African countries, most victims face barriers to accessing justice through the criminal justice system. This problem is particularly acute in post-conflict countries. International organizations such as the United Nations and women's rights advocates have, therefore, promoted the international women's justice norm, which emphasizes the establishment of specialized mechanisms within the criminal justice sector to address VAW. With a focus on the response of the police to rape and intimate partner violence in post-conflict Cãote d'Ivoire and Liberia, this book theorizes the UN's and women's movements' influence
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