Foreword

Sonia Picado Sotela

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

Women's International Human Rights Law: The Way Forward

Rebecca J. Cook

II. Challenges

To Bellow like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity, and the Discourse of Rights

Radhika Coomaraswamy

What are ``Women's International Human Rights''?

Hilary Charlesworth

State Responsibility Goes Private: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law

Celina Romany

Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture

Rhonda Copelon

Why Rethinking the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law

Karen Knop

III. International and Regional Approaches

State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

Toward More Effective Enforcement of Women's Human Rights Through the Use of International Human Rights Law and Procedures

Andrew Byrnes

State Accountability Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Rebecca J. Cook

Toward a More Effective Guarantee of the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Women in the Inter-American System

Cecilia Medina

Toward a More Effective Guarantee of Women's Rights in the African Human Rights System

Chaloka Beyani

African Women's Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights---Toward a Relevant Theory and Practice

Adetoun O. Ilumoka

Domestic Violence as an International Human Rights Issue

Kenneth Roth

The Developing Approaches of the International Commission of Jurists to Women's Human Rights

Mona Rishmawi

IV. National Approaches

General Approaches to Domestic Application of Women's International Human Rights Law

Anne F. Bayefsky

Obstacles to Women's Rights in India

Kirti Singh

Challenges to the Application of International Women's Human Rights in the Sudan

Asma Mohamed Abdel Halim

The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women's International Human Rights: The Example of Ghana

Akua Kuenyehia

Canadian Approaches to Equality Rights and Gender Equity in the Courts

Kathleen E. Mahoney

V. Guaranteeing Human Rights of Particular Significance to Women

Equality in the Home: Women's Rights and Personal Laws in South Asia

Sara Hossam

Using the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights to Secure Women's Access to Land in Africa

Florence Butegwa

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: The Colombian Case

Maria Isabel Plata

The Use of International Human Rights Norms to Combat Violence Against Women

Joan Fitzpatrick

Appendix A. Chart of Ratifications of Selected Human Rights Instruments

Appendix B. Model Communication Form

Appendix C. Organizational Resources

List of Contributors

Table of Cases

Index