Women and Law (International Law, Domestic Jurisprudence United Nations, Human Rights of Women)

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Description
Human rights of women now occupy the center stage of world attention. International law as well as national law take a pro-women view wherever required, treating women as equal partners in sustainable human development. Women comprise nearly half of the world population and same ratio is true about almost every country. It is now increasingly realised that women, therefore, constitute nearly half in the human resource of humanity. So besides the International Level, without caring for women, self guarding their human rights and their active participation in the development process no country can progress.Incidentally, in 2004, I was invited as an expert by the National Commission for Women (NCW), at its national headquarters in New Delhi, to give a presentation relating to various aspects of "Cyber Violence Against Women" (a theme on which I had presented papers at the international fora) which had added a new dimension to the already existing various forms of violation of human rights of women. Ever Since, I decided to work more than in the area of human rights of women that was becoming a cause of the national level and was attracting greater attention of the international community.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1.    Status of Women and Gender Discrimination
Chapter 2.    Evolution of Human Rights of Women
Chapter 3.    Human Rights of Women : International Instruments
Chapter 4.    Assimilation of International Human Rights Instruments Relating to Women in Municipal Legal System of India
Chapter 5.    Human Rights of Women : International Instruments Machinery, Monitoring Mechanisms
Chapter 6.    Human Rights of Women : National Machinery, Monitoring Mechanisms
Chapter 7.    Human Rights of Women : Constitutional Provisions
Chapter 8.    Human Rights of Women : Legal Provisions, Personal Laws and Policy Perspectives
Chapter 9.    Women's Right to Work, their Economic and Political Empowerment and Gender Discrimination at Work
Chapter10.   Violence Against Women
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Author Details : Prof. Dr. Jyothi Rattan - M.Sc., B.Sc., LL.M. (Gold Medalist), LL.B., Ph.D. (Law) Professor of Law, Department of Laws Panjab University, Chandigarh