STL EU's Evolution on Women's Rights and Empowerment: with an analysis of its impact on a candidate country: Turkey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789087640774)

Women's Rights, or the lack thereof, is a multidimensional, worldwide phenomenon. Crucially, it often intersects with another violation of human rights: that of violence. Such breaches of human rights can leave victims suffering the fall out for years. This book engages with key questions about both gender discrimination and violence, aimed particularly at women, with the aim of providing a practical source that can be drawn on by lawyers, legal practitioners, and policy makers, but that will also be accessible to interested readers. Taking as its starting point the core issue of human rights within the European Union, the author explores the legislative and practical efforts that have been made to promote gender equality and combat gender-based violence, and she explores how these laws have impacted legislation in a Candidate Country, her own native homeland of Turkey. The volume analyses progress and challenges within both the EU and Turkey, assessing landmark and recent case laws and highlighting examples of good and bad practices to explore similar but often distinctive efforts and approaches to preventing gender-based discrimination. Throughout the volume, the author offers a wealth of personal comments, critique, and opinions based on her own impressive legal career, and also draws on the diverse approaches and per

Author: Sukran ﾜnal
ISBN-10: 9087640773
ISBN-13: 9789087640774
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d