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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling
demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the
climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist
perspective to expose and address these structural political,
social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced,
multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking
about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and
feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is
bound up with the non-human, natural world. With contributions from
leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this
book considers how equality is conceptualised experienced and used
in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice.
Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal
frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice.
Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an
ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including
developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to
reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all. This
ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across
many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public
international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its
discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case
studies and assessments of women's mobilization strategies will
also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in
international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.
The stark reality is that throughout the world, women
disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can
both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and
cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is
routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How can human rights
respond and alleviate gender-based poverty? This monograph closely
examines the potential of equality and non-discrimination at
international law to redress gender-based poverty. It offers a
sophisticated assessment of how the international human rights
treaties, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which contains no obligations
on poverty, can be interpreted and used to address gender-based
poverty. An interpretation of CEDAW that incorporates the harms of
gender-based poverty can spark a global dialogue. The book makes an
important contribution to that dialogue, arguing that the CEDAW
should serve as an authoritative international standard setting
exercise that can activate international accountability mechanisms
and inform the domestic interpretation of human rights.
Socio-economic rights raise many complex challenges to the
traditional understanding of the nature of human rights, the role
of courts in democratic society and the nature of remedies. This
collection draws together the sophisticated and constructive
solutions developed by the foremost thinkers to fully recognise
socio-economic rights, demonstrating how traditional concepts and
obstacles can be re-characterised and modified to ensure respect
for the indivisibility of human rights. This important collection
provides crucial insights into the emerging and perennial
challenges to socio-economic rights. Including an original
introduction, it is an ideal resource for those new to the study of
socio-economic rights, academics, policy makers and all those
interested in using human rights to achieve social justice.
Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will
never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights
contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to
access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary
collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new
insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It
examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to
account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance
between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses
needed to guarantee girls' right to education and the role of
courts. This unique book draws together contributors who have been
deeply involved in this field from both developing and developed
countries which enriches the understanding and remedial approaches
to tackle current obstacles to universal education.
The stark reality is that throughout the world, women
disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can
both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and
cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is
routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How can human rights
respond and alleviate gender-based poverty? This monograph closely
examines the potential of equality and non-discrimination at
international law to redress gender-based poverty. It offers a
sophisticated assessment of how the international human rights
treaties, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which contains no obligations
on poverty, can be interpreted and used to address gender-based
poverty. An interpretation of CEDAW that incorporates the harms of
gender-based poverty can spark a global dialogue. The book makes an
important contribution to that dialogue, arguing that the CEDAW
should serve as an authoritative international standard setting
exercise that can activate international accountability mechanisms
and inform the domestic interpretation of human rights.
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