II Acquisitions
| DOI | 10.1177/016934410702500215 |
| Published date | 01 June 2007 |
| Date | 01 June 2007 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
Netherlands Q uarterly of Human R ights, Vol. 25/2 (2007) 387
II ACQUISITIONS
Are women human? And other international dialog ues / Cathari ne A. MacKinnon.
– Cambridge: Belk nap, 2006. – 419 p.
ISBN: 0–674–02187–8
More than half a centur y a er the Universal Declaration of Human Rights de ned
what a human being is and is entit led to, the author of this book a sks: are women
human yet? If women we re regarde d as human , would the y be sold int o sexua l slavery
worldwide; veiled, silenced , and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials
for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or bur ned to death withi n it;
mutilated genitally, impoverished economica lly, and mired in ill iteracy – all as a
matter of course and without e ective recourse? e cutting edge is where law and
culture hurts , which is where the author operates in these essays on the tra nsnational
status and treatment of women. She expos es the consequences and signi cance of the
systematic maltreatment of women and its systematic condonation, and she poi nts
towards social, lega l, and political ways of targeting its tox ic orthodoxies.
Ugur Erdal and Hasa n Bakirci. – Geneva: OMCT, 2006. – 374 p. – (OMCT handbook
series; no. 1)
ISBN: 2–88477–110–7
is handbook is a publication of OMCT’s State Compliance Progr amme. Its purpose
is to provide practical adv ice to persons wishing to bring a case to the Europea n
Court of Human Rig hts under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human
Rights, which prohibits tor ture and inhuman or degradi ng treatment or punishment.
As such, the Handbook contains an accessible but comprehensive treatment of the
procedure and practice of the European Court, as well as a detailed analysis of the
Court’s jurisprudence in the a rea of torture and ill-treatment. Because this is an
article-speci c book, a ll areas of substance and procedure are di scussed in the speci c
context of the Court’s Article 3 jurisprudence and specia l emphasis has been placed on
providing strategic lit igation advice in relation to matters which may pose particula r
challenges to Ar ticle 3 litigants. e Court’s evidential rules, a nd in particu lar, the
‘establishment of facts’ and the shi ing of the burden of proof in ill-treatment ca ses,
are given attention. e meaning and scope of the terms ‘torture’ and ‘ inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment’ are dealt with, as is the Court’s practice in the
area of interim measures, f riendly settlement, a nd just satisfaction. Reference material s
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