the practice of the human rights committee and the committee on economic, social and cultural rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Leeuwen, Fleur van
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2009
- Thesaurus
- mensenrechten, zwangerschappen, geweld, seksueel geweld, huiselijk geweld, congressen, VN, proefschrift
- Description
- The author implements a gender perspective into the work of mainstream UN treaty monitoring bodies as part of the gender mainstreaming policy of the UN in order to achieve gender equality. She looks at the conceptualisation and coordination of engendering the work of the supervisory machinery established under mainstream UN human rights treaties. Subjects in the book are pregnancy, violence and sexual violence.